Vaccination in B-cell-depleted patients with multiple sclerosis

Joep Killestein1, Renaud Du Pasquier2, Bernhard Hemmer2

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (J.K.), MS Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (R.D.P.), Service of Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Neurology (B.H.), School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (B.H.), Munich, Germany. j.killestein@vumc.nl.

Neurology
|July 31, 2020
PubMed
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