Sentinel Surveillance Contributes to Tracking Lyme Disease Spatiotemporal Risk Trends in Southern Quebec, Canada
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Structure of paper and discussion part are at a high level. I have some comments, which should be take in consideration:
- Affiliations are in French, please change them to English;
- In text, there are also some phrases in French (for example: in Line 96-97 Introduction; line 32 - material and methods (in 4.2. Sentinel (...);
- Abstract is written chaotically, I recommended using the mdpi template and change it to structured abstract - then it will be much clearer;
- Line 95 - should be Ixodes scapularis, not I. scapularis (first time in text)
- Please, do not use Italics, when it is not necessary (Regions), such as: Line 12 (Results), Line 17 (2.3. Statistical analyses), Line 19 (2.3. Statistical analyses), etc.
- Please, tell me what is the idea of table 1?
- All figures and tables should be fully understandable without looking for data in the text - please take this into account (no abbreviations, adding numerical values (Figure 3), Figure 4-Line 15 human Lyme Disease cases, etc.
Author Response
Thank you very much for taking the time to review this manuscript
Responses to comments are in the attached document.
Kind regards,
Camille
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
Manuscript ID: pathogens-1693876Sentinel surveillance contributes to tracking Lyme disease spatiotemporal risk trends in Southern Quebec, Canada
The manuscript written by Guillot and co-workers described the potential benefits and disadvantages of using the setinel surveillance contributes to tracking Lyme disease spatiotemporal risk trends in Southern Quebec, Canada. The manuscript is well-written, I have only few question.
Did you check if captured ticks were infected by Borrelia? I think it is important to calculate the prevalence of Borrelia in ticks and also this result should be include in the model.
Please add the hypothesis in the end of Introduction section.
I propose to use PCA analysis to demonstrate the results.
Author Response
Thank you very much for taking the time to review this manuscript.
Responses to comments are in the attached document.
Kind regards,
Camille
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
I agree with the authors responses. I accept the manuscript with present form.
