Fig. 5

Spearman correlation between metabolite concentrations and leukocyte count in CSF by analyte group. a All patient groups. b Z. meningoencephalitis only. Values correspond to Spearman’s correlation coefficients (ρ). Analytes with significant negative Spearman’s ρ in one of the two correlation analyses are labeled bold and the four internally best validated biomarker candidates (Fig. 4c-f) in italics. Uncorrected P values: *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001. Abbreviations: Arg arginine, Gly glycine, Ser serine, Trp tryptophan