Prevalence and epidemiological distribution of selected foodborne pathogens in human and different environmental samples in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 1 Search terms used to retrieve articles and number of articles searched for screening

Search terms developed and used	FBP
	*Salmonella*		*E. coli*		Other source
	BMC	Pubmed	BMC	Pubmed	Other source
“Organism” and “Ethiopia”	165	166	236	191	6
“Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “Diarrhea”	73	28	79	12	3
“Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “children” and “Diarrhea”	48	14	51	6	1
“Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “under five children” and “Diarrhea”	40	6	39	2	4
“Prevalence” and “Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “Diarrhea”	53	19	55	4	1
“Isolation” and “Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “children” and “Diarrhea”	22	10	26	3	2
“Epidemiology” and “Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “children”	29	19	37	12	0
“Prevalence” and “Organism” and “Ethiopia” and “children” and “Diarrhea”	41	11	42	3	0
“Diarrheagenic E. coli” and “Ethiopia”			0	192	2
Total	471	273	565	425	19

N. B.: The word “organism” separately replaced by Salmonella and E. coli
Other source = unpublished sources like university repositories and direct Google search

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