Avidity of vaccine-induced influenza IgG fails to increase in fingolimod-treated patients with MS
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- Received February 26, 2014
- Accepted in final form August 8, 2014
- First Published September 11, 2014.
Author Disclosures
- Matthias Mehling, MD,
- Dominik Eichin, MSc,
- Patricia Hafner, MD,
- Gideon Hönger, BSc,
- Ludwig Kappos, MD* and
- Christoph Hess, MD, PhD*
- Matthias Mehling, MD,
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- Dominik Eichin, MSc,
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(1) University of Turku
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- Patricia Hafner, MD,
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- Gideon Hönger, BSc,
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- Ludwig Kappos, MD* and
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(1)Multiple Sclerosis Journal, (2)Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders (3)Journal of Neurology
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all less than 500 USD
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(1)Actelion, (2)Addex,(3)Bayer Health Care,(4)Biogen Idec, (5)Biotica, (6)CSL Behring, (7)Genzyme,(8)Lilly,(9) Merck Serono, (10)Mitsubishi, (11)Novartis,(12)Ono Pharma, (13)Pfizer, (14) Receptos, (15) Roche, (16)Sanofi-aventis, (17)Santhera, (18)Siemens, (19)Teva, (20)UCB, (21)Xenoport I have also lectured at medical conferences or in public on various aspects of the diagnosis and management of multiple sclerosis. In many cases these talks have been sponsored by non-restricted educational grants from one or another of the above listed companies. Honoraria and other payments for all these activities have been exclusively used for funding of research of my department. Research and the clinical operations (nursing and patient care services) of the MS Center in Basel have been supported by non-restricted grants from one or more of these companies.
Research support by the Swiss National Research Foundation and the European Union
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The Swiss MS Society and Novartis and Roche Research Foundations.
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- Christoph Hess, MD, PhD*
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Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_153059)
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- From the Immunobiology Laboratory/Department of Biomedicine and Medical Outpatient Department (M.M., D.E., G.H., C.H.) and the Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroimmunology Laboratory/Department of Biomedicine (M.M., P.H., L.K.), University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
- Correspondence to Dr. Kappos: lkappos{at}uhbs.ch or Dr. Hess: chess{at}uhbs.ch
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