Reviewer's report
Title:The occurrence of Urinary Tract Infection before development of Primary
Biliary Cirrhosis: a case control study.
Version: 2Date:12 April 2011
Reviewer: Ikuko Haruta
Reviewer's report:
The paper demonstrated that PBC associated with UTI prior to diagnosis,
especially in associateion with younger PBC patients, based on the UK GPRD.
The paper is corrected side by side following reviewers’ comments and much
clearly emphasized their results of case control study. The paper is now
acceptable for publication.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I decleare that I have no competing interest.
Reviewer's report
Title:The occurrence of Urinary Tract Infection before development of Primary
Biliary Cirrhosis: a case control study.
Version: 2Date:12 April 2011
Reviewer: Ikuko Haruta
Reviewer's report:
The paper demonstrated that PBC associated with UTI prior to diagnosis,
especially in associateion with younger PBC patients, based on the UK GPRD.
The paper is corrected side by side following reviewers’ comments and much
clearly emphasized their results of case control study. The paper is now
acceptable for publication.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I decleare that I have no competing interest.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:The occurrence of Urinary Tract Infection before development of Primary
Biliary Cirrhosis: a case control study.
Version: 2Date:12 April 2011
Reviewer: Ikuko Haruta
Reviewer's report:
The paper demonstrated that PBC associated with UTI prior to diagnosis,
especially in associateion with younger PBC patients, based on the UK GPRD.
The paper is corrected side by side following reviewers’ comments and much
clearly emphasized their results of case control study. The paper is now
acceptable for publication.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I decleare that I have no competing interest.
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