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You adequately addressed all suggestions made by the reviewers of the original manuscript.
As you will see, both expert reviewers consider your manuscript a well written technical study that adds valuable approaches to the diagnosis of BV. Both reviewers provide some suggestions for further improvement of the paper. In addition, I would suggest you use the term microbiota rather than flora/microflora.
The paper is a technical paper. With some minor translational issues, it is well written and concise. The only technical comment I have is the use of the transport media to generate a Nugent slide. Some readers will state that the media may have a dilution effect on the specimen placed on the slide and could potentially alter a Nugent score. They will need a reference to support the approach, or a sentence discussing this as an experimental limitation.
My comments--
Abstract:
1st sentence: “infection” to “infections”.
1st sentence: run-on sentence, split into two sentences.
2nd sentence: “gold standard” to “research gold standard”.
3rd sentence: “characteristic” to “characteristics”.
Paper:
Line 49: “being” to “with”.
Line 49: “Fluorescence” to “fluorescence”.
Line 52: remove “Nowadays,”.
Lines 174 and 175: “sensibility” to “sensitivity”.
Table 1 is demographically interesting, but not really necessary to the content of the paper.
Table 1: add “With” to “Children”.
Delete Table 1 - it is confusing and adds nothing to the paper
no issues
no issues
see above
The article is an original research that deserves to be published. Provides clinical data provide a novel diagnostic method. Figure recommend that have a lighter walk figure to explain each of the panels containing.
The experimental design seems appropriate
The data are robust, it worths to be published
This is a original manuscript that should be published, minor review in figure caption must be done and minor review in the references
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