Reviewer's report 
 Epidemic infectious gastrointestinal illness aboard U.S. Navy ships deployed to the Middle Title: 
East during peacetime operations - 2000-2001. 
 2  7 January 2006 Version: Date: 
 Ben Lopman Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors have adequatley replied to all my concerns in the previous draft. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author can be trusted to correct) 
I would suggest omitting the specific STATA commands and instead describe the statistical testing 
in the regression models. 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests 
Reviewer's report 
 Epidemic infectious gastrointestinal illness aboard U.S. Navy ships deployed to the Middle Title: 
East during peacetime operations - 2000-2001. 
 2  7 January 2006 Version: Date: 
 Ben Lopman Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors have adequatley replied to all my concerns in the previous draft. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author can be trusted to correct) 
I would suggest omitting the specific STATA commands and instead describe the statistical testing 
in the regression models. 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests 
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report 
 Epidemic infectious gastrointestinal illness aboard U.S. Navy ships deployed to the Middle Title: 
East during peacetime operations - 2000-2001. 
 2  7 January 2006 Version: Date: 
 Ben Lopman Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors have adequatley replied to all my concerns in the previous draft. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author can be trusted to correct) 
I would suggest omitting the specific STATA commands and instead describe the statistical testing 
in the regression models. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests 
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