About the Authors

Biborka Bereczky-Veress

Contributed equally to this work with: Biborka Bereczky-Veress, Nada Abdelmagid

Affiliation Department of Medicine Solna, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Nada Abdelmagid

Contributed equally to this work with: Biborka Bereczky-Veress, Nada Abdelmagid

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Fredrik Piehl

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Tomas Bergström

Affiliation Department of Clinical Virology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

Tomas Olsson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Birgit Sköldenberg

Affiliation Department of Medicine Solna, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Margarita Diez

margarita.diez@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BBV NA FP BS MD. Performed the experiments: BBV NA. Analyzed the data: BBV NA FP BS MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB TO. Wrote the paper: BBV NA FP TB TO BS MD.