Comments on the Letter to the Editor of Jie Weng et al. concerning "Relationship between preoperative serum rapid turnover proteins and early-stage surgical wound infection after spine surgery" by D. Kudo et al. (Eur Spine J; 2016: doi:10.1007/s00586-016-4855-z) as well as the Reply of D. Kudo et al. (Eur Spine J; 2018: doi:10.1007/s00586-018-5560-x)
1 Orthopaedics, Trauma and Sports Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, W/C 1374 West Block, C Floor, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK. Kimberley.Edwards@nottingham.ac.uk.