Reduced Hospital Incidence of Autoimmune Encephalitis During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study provides clinical data on antibody-positive AE before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings do not support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers autoantibody-associated AE or increases disease severity.
Authors
- V. Kraus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-6353)
- CG Bien
- Makbule Şenel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2737-7495)
- Andreas Steinbrecher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0621-0992)
- Hagen B. Huttner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2586-9824)
- Manuel Alexander Friese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6380-2420)
- Harald Prüß
- Iason Bartzokis
- Sigrid Reuter
- K. Doppler
- Birgit Berger
- Christian Urbanek
- Katrin Thies
- Martin Häusler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8433-8919)
- Oliver Bahr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0228-1411)
- Dietrich Sturm
- Andreas Linsa
- Christos Krogias (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2965-4051)
- Sonka Benesch
- Britta Greshake
- Rem Vaizian
- Raphael Reinecke
- Felix Rosenow
- Andrea J. Kraft
- Michael P. Malter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2535-4553)
- Marie Madlener
- Corinna Trebst
- Katharina Wurdack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0952-5658)
- Olga Simova
- J. Schmidt
- Franz Felix Konen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-5674)
- Nico Melzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2420-701X)
- Thorleif Etgen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7857-6435)
- Timo Deba
- Justina Dargvainiene (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4114-3748)
- Robert Handreka
- Carsten Finke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7665-1171)
- Ina Reichen
- Marco Gallus
- Nils G. Margraf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-1079)
- Ellen Knierim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-7322)
- Christian Geis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9859-581X)
- Catharina Größ
- Jaqueline Klausewitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9880-1191)
- Malte Teußer
- Mona Dreesmann
- Franz Blaes
- Mareike Schimmel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0611-3922)
- Frank Seifert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7065-2528)
- Andreas Binder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7795-1195)
- Gernot Reimann
- FrankA Hoffmann
- Carsten Finke
- Sarah von Spiczak
- Mosche Brokbals
- Susanne Knake
- J. Lünemann
- Sven Günther Meuth
- Annikki Bertolini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4196-022X)
- Karin Storm van’s Gravesande
- Judith Wagner
- Ina Schroder
- Marie Süße
- Daniel Bittner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9867-9274)
- Frank Kohlert
- Julian Padberg Dominik
- Frank Leypoldt
- Jan Lewerenz
- Tania Kümpfel
- Steffen Syrbe
- Til Menge
- Rosa Rössling
- Kurt-Wolfram Sühs
- Aiden Haghikia
- Dirk Fitzner
- Inga Koneczny
- Niklas Vogel
- Bettina Balint
- Patrick Schramm
- Walid Fazeli
- Andre Dik
- Stefan Bittner
- Thomas Grüter
- Sigrid Mues
- Dominique Endres
- André Scherag
- Günter Seidel
- Anna-Katharina Mundorf
- Florian Then Bergh
- Johanna-Maria Dietmaier
- Stefanie Becker
- Albrecht Günther
- Philip Hillebrand
- Anne-Katrin Pröbstel
- Nele Retzlaff
- Jost Obrocki
- Sebastian Bauer
- Lara Zieger
- Alexander Emmer
- Antonia Harms
- Martin Berghoff
- Marina Flotats- Bastardas
- Mosche Pompsch
- Harald Prüss
- Fabian Möller
- Hendrik Rohner
- Ruth Schilling
- Franziska S. Thaler
- Ina-Isabelle Schmütz
- Gesa Schreyer
- Lena K. Pfeffer
- Julia Maren Decker
- Daniela Esser
- Markus Krämer
- Stephan Rüegg
- Jens Schaumberg
- Gregor Kuhlenbäumer
- Klarissa Hanja Stürner
- Sven Ehrlich
- Anna Gorsler
- Thomas Seifert-Held
- Brigitte Wildemann
- Loana Penner
- Laura Ehrhardt
- Alexandra Philipsen
- Gerd Meyer zu Hörste
- Regina Trollmann
- Karsten Witt
- Njiku Melchior Wellmer
- Anja Tietz
- Valentin Held
- Daniel Rapp
- Robert Berger
- Philip Schwenkenbecher
- Oliver Grauer
- Marc Nikolaus
- Peter Körtvélyessy
- Peter Huppke
- Armin Grau
- Robert Weissert
- Chung Ha-Yeun
- Markus Rauchenzauner
- Marius Jonas
- Felix von Podewils
- Oliver Stammler
- Kristin Stefanie Melzer
- Sebastian Baatz
- Yavor Yalachkov
- Hayrettin Tumani
- Ha-Yeun Chung
- Christoph Lehrich
- Kim Kristin Falk
- Achim Berthele
- Muriel Stoppe
- Martina Jansen
- Marie-Luise Mono
- Robert Rehmann
- Carolin Baade Büttner
- Lena Edelhoff
- Juliane Spiegler
- Jens Harmel
- Theodor Rüber
- Monika Meister
- Fatme Seval Ismail
- Friedemann Paul
- Melissa Schmitz
- Klaus-Peter Wandinger
- Methab Türedi
- George Trendelenburg
- Johanna Maria Helena Rau
- Mareike Jansen
- Josef Priller
- Marcel Gebhard
- Marie Braun
- Yannic Saathoff
- Claudia Sommer
- Johannes Piepgras
- Luise Appeltshauser
- Carlos Martinez Quesada
- Jürgen Hartmut Faiss
- Annika Kather
- Kerstin Hellwig
- Ilya Ayzenberg
- Kai Siebenbrodt
- Simon Schuster
- Max Kaufmann
- Stephan Schreiber
- Henning Stolze
- Niels Hansen
- Annette Baumgartner
- Katharina Eisenhut
- Stjepana Kovac
- Ruth Kerkhoff
- Christian Hofmann
- Sarah Bernsen
- Yetzenia Dubraska Haro Alizo
- Julika Pitsch
- Michael Karenfort
- Wolfgang Heide
- Martin Lesser
- Christoph Kellinghaus
- Tobias Baumgartner
- Marius Ringelstein
- Rolf Kern
Institutions
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- Witten/Herdecke University (DE)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Universität Ulm (DE)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Bielefeld University (DE)
- Medical University of Graz (AT)
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (DE)
- University Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum (DE)
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DE)
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (DE)
- Düsseldorf University Hospital (DE)
- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld (DE)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (DE)
- Klinikum Lüneburg (DE)
- Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (DE)
- Klinikum Ludwigshafen (DE)
- Laboratory Krone (DE)
- Jena University Hospital (DE)
- Klinikum Osnabrück (DE)
- Bochum University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- Martha-Maria Hospital (DE)
- Institute of Neuroimmunology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Alfried Krupp Hospital (DE)
- University Hospital Cologne (DE)
- University Hospital Ulm (DE)
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
- University of Lübeck (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
- Published
- 2026-02-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1212/nxi.0000000000200555
- Primary Topic
- Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00