## Authors and Affiliations

Tania Kümpfel¹☐ · Katrin Giglhuber² · Orhan Aktas³ · Ilya Ayzenberg⁴ · Judith Bellmann-Strobl⁵,⁶,⁷,⁸ ·

Vivien Häußler⁹ · Joachim Havla¹ · Kerstin Hellwig⁴ · Martin W. Hümmert¹⁰ · Sven Jarius¹¹ · Ingo Kleiter⁴,¹² ·

Luisa Klotz¹³ · Markus Krumbholz¹⁴,¹⁵,¹⁶ · Friedemann Paul⁵,⁶,⁷,⁸ · Marius Ringelstein³,¹⁷ · Klemens Ruprecht⁵ ·

Makbule Senel¹⁸ · Jan-Patrick Stellmann⁹,¹⁹,²⁰ · Florian Then Bergh²¹ · Corinna Trebst¹¹ · Hayrettin Tumani¹⁹ ·

Clemens Warnke²² · Brigitte Wildemann¹² · Achim Berthele² · The Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group (NEMOS)

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Tania Kümpfel
Tania.Kuempfel@med.uni-muenchen.de

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Achim Berthele
achim.berthele@tum.de

1 Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, LMU Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

2 Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Technical University Munich, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany

3 Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

4 Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

5 Department of Neurology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

6 Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a cooperation between the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

7 Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany

8 NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

9 Department of Neurology and Institute of Neuroimmunology and MS (INIMS), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

10 Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

11 Molecular Neuroimmunology Group, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

12 Marianne-Strauß-Klinik, Behandlungszentrum Kempfenhausen für Multiple Sklerose Kranke, Berg, Germany

13 Department of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

14 Department of Neurology and Pain Treatment, Immanuel Klinik Rüdersdorf, University Hospital of the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Germany

15 Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Germany

16 Department of Neurology & Stroke, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

17 Department of Neurology, Center for Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, LVR-Klinikum, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

18 Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

19 APHM, Hopital de la Timone, CEMEREM, Marseille, France

20 Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CRMBM, Marseille, France

21 Department of Neurology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

22 Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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