Peer Review History
Original SubmissionOctober 17, 2020 |
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Dear Dr Enbiale, Thank you very much for submitting your manuscript "Surgical debulking of podoconiosis nodules and its impact on quality of life in Ethiopia" for consideration at PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. As with all papers reviewed by the journal, your manuscript was reviewed by members of the editorial board and by several independent reviewers. The reviewers appreciated the attention to an important topic. Based on the reviews, we are likely to accept this manuscript for publication, providing that you modify the manuscript according to the review recommendations. Please prepare and submit your revised manuscript within 30 days. If you anticipate any delay, please let us know the expected resubmission date by replying to this email. When you are ready to resubmit, please upload the following: [1] A letter containing a detailed list of your responses to all review comments, and a description of the changes you have made in the manuscript. 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Sincerely, Andrés Felipe Henao-Martínez, M.D. Deputy Editor PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Andrés Henao-Martínez Deputy Editor PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases *********************** Reviewer #1 This paper has a very good approach related to the assessment of Dermatology quality of live index in patients with surgical treatment including those with a late stage of severity. I would like to see the inclusion in the diagnosis section of the BinaxNOW filariasis rapid antigen test to rule out LF in podoconiosis, where doubt remains (WHO 2011). Please clarify Reviewer #2 Authors describe a descriptive analysis of outcomes of nodulectomy in patients with chronic podoconiosis. The results are encouraging and it would prove to be of a high clinical relevance. Few minor corrections can enhance the paper: *Please recheck your manuscripts throughout for typos and grammar issues. Please use American and not British English (e.g. edema and not oedema). *Also in several passages through the text there is a lack of an appropriate space among words including the abstract (see few examples in lines 16, 97, 127, 135, 136, 152, 168, etc.) Please check the entire manuscript carefully. Methods: *Please clarify in the method and results section, what other additional interventions were offered to those patients that could have impacted the DLQI scores after surgery? were the patients provided with shoes? Were they given pain or other medications, access to healthcare? * How this group of patients compared to the most general population? How was your patients selected to the study? Discussion: * Please discuss more limitations of your study. What other unforeseen interventions/biases could have affected the results? *Please expand and theorize why the intervention worked? 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Revision 1 |
Dear Dr Enbiale, We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript 'Surgical debulking of podoconiosis nodules and its impact on quality of life in Ethiopia' has been provisionally accepted for publication in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Before your manuscript can be formally accepted you will need to complete some formatting changes, which you will receive in a follow up email. A member of our team will be in touch with a set of requests. Please note that your manuscript will not be scheduled for publication until you have made the required changes, so a swift response is appreciated. IMPORTANT: The editorial review process is now complete. PLOS will only permit corrections to spelling, formatting or significant scientific errors from this point onwards. Requests for major changes, or any which affect the scientific understanding of your work, will cause delays to the publication date of your manuscript. Should you, your institution's press office or the journal office choose to press release your paper, you will automatically be opted out of early publication. We ask that you notify us now if you or your institution is planning to press release the article. All press must be co-ordinated with PLOS. Thank you again for supporting Open Access publishing; we are looking forward to publishing your work in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Best regards, José Antonio Suárez Guest Editor PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Andrés Henao-Martínez Deputy Editor PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases *********************************************************** |
Formally Accepted |
Dear Dr Enbiale, We are delighted to inform you that your manuscript, "Surgical debulking of podoconiosis nodules and its impact on quality of life in Ethiopia," has been formally accepted for publication in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. We have now passed your article onto the PLOS Production Department who will complete the rest of the publication process. All authors will receive a confirmation email upon publication. The corresponding author will soon be receiving a typeset proof for review, to ensure errors have not been introduced during production. Please review the PDF proof of your manuscript carefully, as this is the last chance to correct any scientific or type-setting errors. Please note that major changes, or those which affect the scientific understanding of the work, will likely cause delays to the publication date of your manuscript. Note: Proofs for Front Matter articles (Editorial, Viewpoint, Symposium, Review, etc...) are generated on a different schedule and may not be made available as quickly. Soon after your final files are uploaded, the early version of your manuscript will be published online unless you opted out of this process. The date of the early version will be your article's publication date. The final article will be published to the same URL, and all versions of the paper will be accessible to readers. Thank you again for supporting open-access publishing; we are looking forward to publishing your work in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Best regards, Shaden Kamhawi co-Editor-in-Chief PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Paul Brindley co-Editor-in-Chief PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
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