JMIRxMed JMIRx Med JMIRx Med 2563-6316 JMIR Publications Toronto, Canada v2i3e31512 10.2196/31512 Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “Impact of Modifiable Risk Factors on the Occurrence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: Case-Control Study” Meinert Edward Lehlewa Asaad Mahdi MD, MSc 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4871-3491 Khaleel Hanan Abdulghafoor MD, MSc, DrPH 2
Communicable Diseases Control Center Public Health Directorate Ministry of Health of Iraq Alandalus Square Baghdad Iraq 964 7901472335 drhanan.cdcciq@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9485-8328 Lami Faris MD, PhD 3 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-3818 Hasan Saif Aldeen Falah DVM, HDip 2 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6257-6732 Malick Hasanain Asmail MD, MSc 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0885-1080 Mohammed Razzaq Hashim MD, MSc 4 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2932-3474 Abdulmottaleb Qais Abdulazziz MD, MSc 5 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0493-3997 Public Health Directorate Ministry of Health of Iraq Baghdad Iraq Communicable Diseases Control Center Public Health Directorate Ministry of Health of Iraq Baghdad Iraq Department of Community and Family Medicine College of Medicine University of Baghdad Baghdad Iraq Ministry of Health of Iraq Baghdad Iraq Ministry of Health of Iraq Babylon Iraq Corresponding Author: Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel drhanan.cdcciq@gmail.com Jul-Sep 2021 30 7 2021 2 3 e31512 23 6 2021 23 6 2021 ©Asaad Mahdi Lehlewa, Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel, Faris Lami, Saif Aldeen Falah Hasan, Hasanain Asmail Malick, Razzaq Hashim Mohammed, Qais Abdulazziz Abdulmottaleb. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 30.07.2021. 2021

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This is the authors’ response to peer reviews of “Impact of Modifiable Risk Factors on the Occurrence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: Case-Control Study.”

Round 1 Review Reviewer O

1. Thanks for raising this issue [1]. Being a control does not mean that they should not share the risk factors. A control here [2] is a person with no current lesions or history of lesions.

4. Would you please highlight the repeated paragraph, as we reviewed it more than once but did not find it.

 Reviewer T

2. Because we have so many risk factors to talk about, we did not put the odds in the Abstract.

6. Because this study was part of an outbreak investigation, we did not use the traditional methods for sample size calculation. Instead, we included as many as possible of both cases and controls to have more insight into the risk factors.

8. If the reviewer can kindly point out which table he meant [3], we will correct it accordingly.

 Al-Dubaiee R Peer review of "Impact of modifiable risk factors on the occurrence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: case-control study" JMIRx Med 2021 7 2 3 e31513 10.2196/31513 Lehlewa AM Khaleel HA Lami F Hasan SAF Malick HA Mohammed RH Abdulmottaleb QA Impact of modifiable risk factors on the occurrence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: case-control study JMIRx Med 2021 7 2 3 e28255 10.2196/28255 Nassar AAH Peer review of "Impact of modifiable risk factors on the occurrence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: case-control study" JMIRx Med 2021 7 2 3 e31515 10.2196/31515