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  1. APHP, Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, 75018, Paris, France

    R. Sonneville

  2. Université de Paris, INSERM UMR1148, team 6, 75018, Paris, France

    R. Sonneville

  3. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Encephalitis Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    A. Venkatesan

  4. French Reference Center on Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndrome, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique, Bron, France

    J. Honnorat

  5. Institut NeuroMyoGene INSERM U1217/CNRS, UMR 5310, Université de Lyon–Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

    J. Honnorat

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RS received grants from the French Ministry of Health, the French society of intensive care medicine (SRLF) and the European society of intensive care medicine (ESICM), and lecture fees from Baxter. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Sonneville, R., Venkatesan, A. & Honnorat, J. Understanding auto-immune encephalitis in the ICU. Intensive Care Med 45, 1795–1798 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05773-0

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