Letter to the Editor concerning "Bacteria: back pain, leg pain and Modic sign: a surgical multicenter comparative study" by Fritzell, P., Welinder-Olsson, C., Jönsson, B. et al. Eur Spine J (2019)

Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, USA. mcapoor@mail.rockefeller.edu.
• ² Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Kamenice 753/5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic. mcapoor@mail.rockefeller.edu.
• ³ Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, Londonderry, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Orthopedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany.
• ⁵ Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Kamenice 753/5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
• ⁶ Marian University Osteopathic Medical School, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
• ⁷ Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁸ Celgene Corporation, Information Knowledge and Utilization, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁹ Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Kamenice 753/5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic. ondrej.slaby@ceitec.muni.cz.