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  1. Dirk Roggenbuck1,
  2. Dirk Reinhold2,
  3. Thomas Wex3,
  4. Ulrike von Arnim3,
  5. Peter Malfertheiner3,
  6. Andreas Sturm4,
  7. Lael Werner4,
  8. Dimitrios P Bogdanos5,
  9. Martin W Laass6,
  10. Karsten Conrad7
  1. 1GA Generic Assays GmbH, Dahlewitz, Germany
  2. 2Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
  3. 3Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
  4. 4Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  5. 5Division of Gene and Cell Based Therapy, King's College London School of Medicine at King's College Hospital, London, UK
  6. 6Children's Hospital, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  7. 7Institute of Immunology, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  1. Correspondence to Dr Karsten Conrad, Institute of Immunology, Technical University Dresden, Fetscherstraße 74, Dresden 01307, Germany; k_conrad{at}mail.zih.tu-dresden.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.2010.237214

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    • Competing interests Dirk Roggenbuck is a shareholder of GA Generic Assays GmbH and Medipan GmbH. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the Medical Faculty, University of Dresden.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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