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Table 1 Eligibility criteria

From: Prevalence of Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

 • Study settings: conducted in Ethiopian on any settings

 • Study subjects/population: humans

 • Study design: any study reported the prevalence of VRE or numbers of VRE and total enterococci isolates

 • Sample size: studies isolated not less than two enterococci

 • Language: published/reported in English

 • Type of study: peer-reviewed, full text available before June 30, 2019

• Studies on antimicrobial susceptibility tests other than vancomycin (studies that did not include VRE)

• Prevalence studies only

• Studies having less than two isolates

• Studies not reporting enterococcal isolates separately (no population denominator)

• Reviews, comments and duplications

• Studies on non-human subjects