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Variant Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from Belgian Military Personnel Engaged in Overseas Missions and Operations

Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1359; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/v13071359
by Jean-Paul Pirnay 1,*,†, Philippe Selhorst 2,†, Samuel L. Hong 3, Christel Cochez 1, Barney Potter 3, Piet Maes 3, Mauro Petrillo 4, Gytis Dudas 5,6, Vincent Claes 7, Yolien Van der Beken 7, Gilbert Verbeken 1, Julie Degueldre 7, Simon Dellicour 3,8, Lize Cuypers 9, France T’Sas 7, Guy Van den Eede 10, Bruno Verhasselt 11, Wouter Weuts 12, Cedric Smets 13, Jan Mertens 14, Philippe Geeraerts 14, Kevin K. Ariën 15,16, Emmanuel André 9,17, Pierre Neirinckx 14, Patrick Soentjens 18,19 and Guy Baele 3add Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1359; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/v13071359
Submission received: 17 June 2021 / Revised: 6 July 2021 / Accepted: 8 July 2021 / Published: 13 July 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19—Advances in Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects)

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Reviewer 1 Report

Proposed paper is a really interesting and really well written one. I have only two minor point to be addressed before it could be accepted for pubblication:

  • There are very few number of cases and this is surely a strenght of the protocol of the belgian military agency. Although it has been already discussed please reinforce this concept in the discussion.
  • A very recently published review on COVID have been missed and could be cited in the introduction (i.e. High Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev. 2021 Jun 26:1–7. )

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We appreciate very much your time in reviewing our manuscript.  

We reinforced the Belgian military concept in the manuscript and added the proposed reference.

Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Jean-Paul Pirnay

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors assessed 7,683 samples obtained from Belgian soldiers involved 305 in missions and operations during May 2020 - April 2021. Twelve soldiers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 two days before their departure and upon return to Belgium, 21 soldiers tested positive.

This manuscript is well-written, the figures are of high quality, and the authors have clearly worked hard to produce a comprehensive dataset and detailed description of their methods. I would recommend it for acceptance after one minor point below.

Line 140: Do you mean 2021?

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We would like to thank you for the time you spent reviewing our manuscript.

Many thanks for observing the wrong year in line 140. We corrected this in the manuscript.

Kind regards,

Jean-Paul

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