Letter to the Editor concerning "Ribosomal PCR assay of excised intervertebral discs from patients undergoing single-level primary lumbar microdiscectomy.'' by Alamin TF, Munoz M, Zagel A, et al.: Eur Spine J 2017
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14740%2F18%3A00106681" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14740/18:00106681 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5379-x" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5379-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5379-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00586-017-5379-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Letter to the Editor concerning "Ribosomal PCR assay of excised intervertebral discs from patients undergoing single-level primary lumbar microdiscectomy.'' by Alamin TF, Munoz M, Zagel A, et al.: Eur Spine J 2017
Original language description
Based on epidemiological evidence (Urquhart et al. 2017), direct microscopic evidence of Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) biofilm in degenerated disc tissue (Capoor et al. 2017), and experimental induction of degenerative disc disease in an animal model using P. acnes (Shan et al. 2017), among other evidence, P. acnes infection is emerging as an etiological factor in degenerative disc disease. Therefore, a recent article published by Alamin et al. in European Spine Journal has raised some concern (Alamin et al. 2017). Alamin et al. failed to find evidence of any bacterial DNA in disc tissue obtained from 44 patients with radiculopathy and MRI findings of lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus who underwent lumbar microdiscectomy. They employed a PCR/amplicon sequencing assay used for the routine diagnosis of invasive infections and declared this method to detect 97.7% of infected tissues and fluid samples, using culture as the reference method (unpublished data).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30210 - Clinical neurology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Spine Journal
ISSN
0940-6719
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
516-517
UT code for WoS article
000425292500037
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85032805338