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Table 1 Keywords used to identify eligible studies available in five biomedical databases

From: Mupirocin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Database

Search period

Search strategy

MEDLINE via PubMed

EBSCOhost via Academic Search premier, Africa-Wide information and CINAHL

1974 - August 2016

1982 - August 2016

(Staphylococcus aureus OR S. aureus)

AND

(Mupirocin)

AND

(Algeria OR Angola OR Benin OR Botswana OR Burkina Faso OR “Burkina Faso” OR Burkina Fasso OR Upper Volta OR “Upper Volta” OR Burundi OR Cameroon OR Cape Verde OR “Cape Verde” OR Central African Republic OR Chad OR Comoros OR “Iles Comores” OR Iles Comores OR Comoro Islands OR “Comoro Islands” OR Congo OR Democratic Republic Congo OR “Democratic Republic of the Congo” OR Zaire OR Djibouti OR Egypt OR Equatorial Guinea OR “Equatorial Guinea” OR Eritrea OR Ethiopia OR Gabon OR Gambia OR Ghana OR Guinea OR Guinea Bissau OR “Guinea Bissau” OR Ivory Coast OR “Ivory Coast” OR Cote d’Ivoire OR “Cote d’Ivoire” OR Kenya OR Lesotho OR Liberia OR Libya OR Libia OR Jamahiriya OR Jamahiryia OR Madagascar OR Malawi OR Mali OR Mauritania OR Mauritius OR Ile Maurice OR “Ile Maurice” OR Morocco OR Mozambique OR Moçambique OR Namibia OR Niger OR Nigeria OR Rwanda OR Sao Tome OR “Sao Tome” OR Senegal OR Seychelles OR Sierra Leone OR “Sierra Leone” OR Somalia OR South Africa OR “South Africa” OR Sudan OR South Sudan OR “South Sudan” OR Swaziland OR Tanzania OR Tanganyika OR Zanzibar OR Togo OR Tunisia OR Uganda OR Western Sahara OR “Western Sahara” OR Zambia OR Zimbabwe OR Africa OR Africa* OR Southern Africa OR West Africa OR Western Africa OR Eastern Africa OR East Africa OR North Africa OR Northern Africa OR Central Africa OR Sub Saharan Africa OR Subsaharan Africa OR Sub-Saharan Africa)

NOT

(Guinea pig* OR “Guinea pig*” OR Aspergillus niger OR “Aspergillus niger” OR Europe* OR America* OR Asia*)

ISI Web of Science

1950 - August 2016

Scopus from SciVerse

1982 - August 2016

(Staphylococcus aureus OR S. aureus)

AND

(Mupirocin)

AND

(Africa)a

Google Scholar**

 

(Staphylococcus aureus OR S. aureus)

AND

(Mupirocin)

AND

(Name of each African country)

Examples

(Staphylococcus aureus OR S. aureus) AND (Mupirocin) AND (Algeria)

(Staphylococcus aureus OR S. aureus) AND (Mupirocin) AND (Zimbabwe)

  1. aThe African countries were manually selected (as recommended by Scopus database) to exclude studies from other continents
  2. **The Google Scholar search was conducted between July-September 2015