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KP raised a very important point in his reply <font style="" color="#000000">to Isra´s comment on the Madrid VL outbreak</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><font style="" color="#000000">by </font>saying that:<br><br>" <font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">It is understood that such informal
communications do not constitute a formal scientific publication, but do help
spread the information more quickly to the scientific community." <br><br><font style="" color="#000000">For the reasons given by KP Leish-L communications <b>are not eligible as citations</b> in formal publications. </font></span></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span dir="ltr">The idea behind the messages is simply to make
people aware of recent breakthroughs and advances</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><font style="" color="#000000"> and to encourage informal informal discussions on any subject remotely related to leishmaniasis.<br><br>This brings me to question the acceptability of web-links as sources of information in dissertations, theses and papers. <br><br>With best wishes<br><br>Jeffrey </font></span></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><font style="" color="#000000"> </font> </span></font> </div></body>
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