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If acquired during infancy or childhood, permanent neurofunctional deficits including cognitive impairment, cerebral palsy, and secondary epilepsy are typical sequelae of neuronal injury. Determination of patients at risk for the development of brain injury and subsequent neurofunctional sequelae could help to identify patients for focused management. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is an axonal cytoskeletal protein released upon neuronal injury into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood. As little is known about the course of neurofilament release in the course of PM, we measured CSF and serum NfL levels longitudinally in experimental PM (ePM).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Eleven-day-old infant Wistar rats were infected intracisternally with<jats:italic>Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/jats:italic>and treated with ceftriaxone. At 18 and 42\u2009h post-infection (hpi), the blood and CSF were sampled for NfL measurements by a single molecule array technology. Inflammatory cytokines and MMP-9 in CSF were quantified by magnetic bead multiplex assay (Luminex\u00ae) and by gel zymography, respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In ePM, CSF and serum NfL levels started to increase at 18 hpi and were 26- and 3.5-fold increased, respectively, compared to mock-infected animals at 42 hpi (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt; 0.0001). CSF and serum NfL correlated at 18 hpi (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt; 0.05,<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>= 0.4716) and 42 hpi (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt; 0.0001,<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>= 0.8179). Both CSF and serum NfL at 42 hpi strongly correlated with CSF levels of IL-1\u03b2, TNF-\u03b1, and IL-6 and of MMP-9 depending on their individual kinetics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Current results demonstrate that during the peak inflammatory phase of ePM, NfL levels in CSF and serum are the highest among CNS disease models studied so far. Given the strong correlation of CSF versus serum NfL, and its CNS-specific signal character, longitudinal measurements to monitor the course of PM could be performed based on blood sample tests, i.e., without the need of repetitive spinal taps. 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