Reply to a letter to the editor regarding the article, "Chronic low back pain, bacterial infection and treatment with antibiotics. Gilligan CJ, Cohen SP, Fischetti VA, Hirsch JA, Czaplewski LG. Spine J 2021 Feb 18;S1529-9430"
Spine J. 2021 Jul;21(7):1236-1237.
doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2021.03.033.
1 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: cgilligan@bwh.harvard.edu.
2 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 550 N. Broadway, Ste 301, Baltimore, MD 21029, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 8901 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD 20889, USA.
3 Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
4 Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
5 Persica Pharmaceuticals Ltd, 7 Denne Hill Business Centre, Womenswold, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 6HD, UK.