Answer to the Letter to the Editor of M. Capoor et al. 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)

[摘要] We thank the authors of the Letter to the Editor for interesting and engaged comments on our recent investigation of putative bacterial infections in patients with pain-generating discs, which we argue are due to contamination. We provide our view on the comments below.