Reply: Blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier dysfunction in patients with neurological symptoms during the 2011 Northern German Escherichia coli serotype O104:H4 outbreak

ARTICLE Sir, Skripuletz et al. (2013) raise an interesting point looking at the ratio of albumin in serum compared with CSF. In their sample of five patients, four were found to have an increased albumin serum/CSF ratio (Qalb). This finding was mainly owing to low albumin concentrations in the serum of their patients with haemolytic uremic syndrome. From our original cohort (Magnus et al. , 2012), CSF …