JMIRxMed JMIRx Med JMIRx Med 2563-6316 JMIR Publications Toronto, Canada v2i3e31513 10.2196/31513 Peer-Review Report Peer-Review Report Peer Review of “Impact of Modifiable Risk Factors on the Occurrence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: Case-Control Study” Meinert Edward Al-Dubaiee Riham FETP, MD 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7841-1825 Ministry of Public Health and Population Sana'a Yemen Jul-Sep 2021 30 7 2021 2 3 e31513 23 6 2021 23 6 2021 ©Riham Al-Dubaiee. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 30.07.2021. 2021

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 https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/28255 https://med.jmirx.org/2021/3/e31512/ https://med.jmirx.org/2021/3/e28255/ cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak Iraq risk factors risk disease infectious disease disease prevention prevention

This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper “Impact of Modifiable Risk Factors on the Occurrence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Diyala, Iraq: Case-Control Study.”

Round 1 Review General Comments

This paper [1] is very useful, as cutaneous leishmaniasis is a neglected infectious disease in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

 Specific Comments Major Comments

1. What is the accurate definition of the controls, mentioned as family members? If they are family members, could there be risk factors in most of the housing characteristics that they share, such as animals in the house, electricity, and distance from animals?

 Minor Comments

2. In the Background section, I suggest putting the epidemiology globally, followed by the Eastern Mediterranean region, then Iraq (was interrupted).

3. I have a comment on mentioning the risk factors in the Background section.

4. In the Results section, “usage of fogging and bed nets” is repeated twice in two paragraphs.

5. In the Methods section, the ratio of cases:controls should be mentioned.

6. Some of the references need to be revised.

None declared.

 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