Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: Clinical Characteristics of Genital Chlamydia Infection in Pelvic Inflammatory Disease  
 
Version: 0 Date: 17 Oct 2016  
 
Reviewer: Maribel Acien  
 
Reviewer's report:  
 
- Key words: Pelvic Inflammatory DISEASE  
- Results:  
Page 6. Line 91 -94. The patients in the Chlamydia  group were younger, and were LESS likely to 
be married and to have children than those in the non -Chlamydia group.  
Page 7. Line 101 -105. These results are not graphically presented.  
Page 7. Line 104. …a significant difference in CA125 level (was) remained  between the 
chlamydia…  
Page 7. Line 109 -114. The incidence of surgery is presented in Table 2. Same for the incidence 
of TOA.  
Page 8. Line 119 -120. The cut -off values are shown in Table 3.  
 
- Table 1: The results related with symptoms and menstrual problem s are not referred in the 
results section text.  
- Declarations:  
Line 211. The datasets ARE available from…  
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