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A strategy for managing flu-like symptoms after botulinum toxin injections

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This work was supported in part by the Dystonia Coalition, which receives the majority of its support through National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants NS065701 and TR001456 from the Office of Rare Diseases Research at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Wayne State University, University Health Center 8D, 4201 St. Antoine, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA

    Edwin B. George & N. Shneyder

  2. Department of Neurology and Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Adam C. Cotton & H. A. Jinnah

  3. Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    N. Shneyder

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George, E.B., Cotton, A.C., Shneyder, N. et al. A strategy for managing flu-like symptoms after botulinum toxin injections. J Neurol 265, 1932–1933 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-018-8934-4

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