Reviewer's report
Title:Helicobacter pylori in apparently healthy children aged 0-12 years in urban
Kampala, Uganda: a community-based cross sectional survey.
Version: 5Date:7 May 2010
Reviewer: Schalk W van der Merwe
Reviewer's report:
When I initially evaluated the manuscript my conclusions were:
1. The manuscript did not add any new information of the transmission of H.
pylori, risk factors associated with H.pylori infection in third world communities
2. The manuscript uses low resolution absence/presence methods which has
severe limitations when inferring transmission
3. I considered the manuscript to be better suited for publication in an
Epidemiology journal
Although it is a well conducted study, done under difficult circumstances and
after considerable improvements were made to the manuscript by the authors, it
does not change my initial fundamental conclusion: the manuscript adds no new
information in the field of Gastroenterology
Reviewer's report
Title:Helicobacter pylori in apparently healthy children aged 0-12 years in urban
Kampala, Uganda: a community-based cross sectional survey.
Version: 5Date:7 May 2010
Reviewer: Schalk W van der Merwe
Reviewer's report:
When I initially evaluated the manuscript my conclusions were:
1. The manuscript did not add any new information of the transmission of H.
pylori, risk factors associated with H.pylori infection in third world communities
2. The manuscript uses low resolution absence/presence methods which has
severe limitations when inferring transmission
3. I considered the manuscript to be better suited for publication in an
Epidemiology journal
Although it is a well conducted study, done under difficult circumstances and
after considerable improvements were made to the manuscript by the authors, it
does not change my initial fundamental conclusion: the manuscript adds no new
information in the field of Gastroenterology
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Helicobacter pylori in apparently healthy children aged 0-12 years in urban
Kampala, Uganda: a community-based cross sectional survey.
Version: 5Date:7 May 2010
Reviewer: Schalk W van der Merwe
Reviewer's report:
When I initially evaluated the manuscript my conclusions were:
1. The manuscript did not add any new information of the transmission of H.
pylori, risk factors associated with H.pylori infection in third world communities
2. The manuscript uses low resolution absence/presence methods which has
severe limitations when inferring transmission
3. I considered the manuscript to be better suited for publication in an
Epidemiology journal
Although it is a well conducted study, done under difficult circumstances and
after considerable improvements were made to the manuscript by the authors, it
does not change my initial fundamental conclusion: the manuscript adds no new
information in the field of Gastroenterology
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