Microbiological Advantages of Open Incisional Biopsies for the Diagnosis of Suspected Periprosthetic Joint Infections
, Ellen Otto 1,2,†, Karl F. Braun 1,3, Frank Graef 1, Sufian S. Ahmad 1,4, Sebastian Hardt 1, Ulrich Stöckle 1, Andrej Trampuz 1 and Sebastian Meller 1
Matthijs Paul Somford
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
An interesting study into OIB in negative synovial diagnostics.
Well written and clear in conclusions and clinical consequence.
One typo discovered: line 51: reqiures -> requires
Author Response
Dear reviewer 1,
thank you for your review of our submitted manuscript and for the improvements you suggested. Please find our detailed answers to your recommendations down below.
Reviewer: “An interesting study into OIB in negative synovial diagnostics. Well written and clear in conclusions and clinical consequence. One typo discovered: line 51: reqiures -> requires.”
Answer: Correspondingly, we have corrected the typo. Thank you very much.
Again, thank you for your thorough review. All of your constructive points significantly helped to improve our manuscript.
Best regards
The authors
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors,
thank you for your submission and congratulations for your nice work.
Attached you find some comments.
Introduction/ methods / Discussion: taken together fine work.
line 216: lossening -> loosening
Limitations:
- monocentric data
- retrospective character of the study
- small amount of patients ( its hard to do proper statistics with n = 10 THA cases)
- the follow up is limited (only 8 or 22 months)
Taken together you should improve the limitations section.
Author Response
Dear reviewer 2,
thank you for your review of our submitted manuscript and for the potential improvements you pointed out. Please find our detailed answers to your recommendations down below.
Reviewer: “Dear authors, thank you for your submission and congratulations for your nice work. Attached you find some comments. Introduction/ methods / Discussion: taken together fine work. line 216: lossening -> loosening.”
Answer: We have corrected the typo in line 216. Thank you!.
Reviewer: “Limitations: monocentric data, retrospective character of the study, small amount of patients ( its hard to do proper statistics with n = 10 THA cases), the follow up is limited (only 8 or 22 months). Taken together you should improve the limitations section..”
Answer: Thank you very much for your remark. Accordingly, we have improved our limitations’ section.
Again, thank you for your thorough review.
Best regards
The authors
