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Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) occur particularly in tropical and also subtropical areas. The frequency of these TBDs has been increasing and extending to new territories in a significant way, partly since ticks\u2019 populations are highly favored by prevailing factors such as change in land use patterns, and climate change. Therefore, in order to obtain accurate estimates of mortality, premature mortality, and disability associated about TBDs, more molecular and epidemiological studies in different regions of the world, including Latin America, are required. In the case of this region, there is still a limited number of published studies. In addition, there is recently the emergence and discovering of pathogens not reported previously in this region but present in other areas of the world. 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We want to answer all your comments, as we improved significantly our manuscript based on yours as well as on the other reviewer.\n<b>Title and content of this work do not fit together.<\/b>Well, we have significantly improved the manuscript, which was originally intended as an Opinion Article. As an Advisor of this Gateway, called, Disease Outbreaks, I should explain to you that at this open publishing platform where there are Opinion Articles, Review Articles and Systematic Review Articles.This article is NOT a Systematic Review, it was originally submitted as an Opinion Article, as an invitation from F1000Research as being F1000Research Disease Outbreaks Gateway Advisor, but later classified as Review (narrative review). As you well read, we only referred to some examples of studies in Latin America, about tick-borne diseases, that illustrate the problem, in terms of a neglected group of conditions in the region, wherein most of the countries are not under surveillance, and there is still a lack of studies, but even more actions for effective control.\n<b>What about the taxonomical issues stated at the end of the abstract? It is not discussed in the paper.<\/b>We have improved on the updated taxonomy.\n<b>For a review, it is not very comprehensive and does not focus on Latin America. The structure of the manuscript is not logical, starting with <i>Rickettsia<\/i>, continue with <i>Ehrlichia<\/i>, coming back to <i>Rickettsia<\/i>. There is too much content about the USA for a short review referring to Latin America.<\/b>As we mentioned, this is not a Systematic Review, is an opinion article, published by decision of F1000Research as a Review (narrative). We focused now more in Latin America.\n<b>In the table, there are a number of tick-borne diseases which do not occur in Latin America E.g. Colorado tick fever, Heartland virus diseases or Powassan encephalitis. It is not acceptable to simply transfer data from <\/b>\n<b>USA<\/b>\n<b> to Latin America. <\/b>We significantly changed and corrected the table.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/7-1988\/v2#referee-comment-4396","order":1,"name":"referee-comment-4396","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.19787.r44291, Joyce M Sakamoto, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, 04 Mar 2019, version 2, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/7-1988\/v2#referee-response-44291","order":2,"name":"referee-response-44291","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.19787.r52133, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberl\u00e2ndia, Brazil, 19 Aug 2019, version 2, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/7-1988\/v2#referee-response-52133","order":3,"name":"referee-response-52133","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work","order":4,"name":"grant-information","label":"Grant Information"},{"value":"This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero \"No rights reserved\" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).","order":0,"name":"copyright-info","label":"Copyright"}]}}