American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 18, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(7):627-628; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj262
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1 Public Health Branch, Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2 Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical and Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Correspondence to Dr. Charles N. Bernstein, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 804F-715 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E-3P4 (e-mail: cbernst@cc.umanitoba.ca).
Received for publication March 28, 2006. Accepted for publication March 31, 2006.
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Dr. Moayyedi has made several insightful comments (1
) on our paper (2
). On the basis of his comments, we are encouraged to proceed with a number of follow-up studies, including modeling of the spatial relation between multiple sclerosis and enteric infections.
We do, however, have the following comments in response. Firstly, Dr. Moayyedi suggests that migration of individuals between small geographic areas over time brings into question