A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis of the Leading Pathogens Causing Neonatal Sepsis in Developing Countries

Table 5

Metaregression analysis of Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli in developing countries.

Variable	Coefficient	value
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus
Years of study	-0.17	0.826
Sample size	-0.23	0.983
Brazil	-35.24	0.027
Ethiopia	-70.95	0.002
India	-61.44	0.000
Jamaica	-59.55	0.001
Jordan	-50.94	0.005
Kenya	-79.15	0.001
Mexico	-0.745	0.956
Nepal	-48.54	0.005
Nigeria	-67.75	0.002
South Africa	-47.81	0.001
Sudan	-76.75	0.001
Tanzania	59.23	0.004
Zambia	-86.55	0.001
Cross-sectional	24.00	0.044
Prospective	1.45	0.813
Staphylococcus aureus
Years of study	-0.48	0.483
Sample size	-0.23	0.654
Ethiopia	49.42	0.134
Gambia	60.00	0.046
Ghana	22.20	0.472
India	18.84	0.406
Indonesia	9.74	0.758
Nepal	23.22	0.466
Nigeria	34.65	0.163
Sudan	21.30	0.437
Tanzania	18.62	0.558
Uganda	34.48	0.236
Zambia	14.62	0.644
Cross-sectional	-21.72	0.149
Prospective cohort	-9.50	0.445
E. coli
Year of study	-0.6604672	0.556
Sample size	0.022806	0.401
Bangladesh	5.2	0.866
Cameroon	18	0.565
Egypt	-0.5400002	0.986
Ghana	0.5999999	0.984
India	28.44278	0.273
Nigeria	1.998955	0.940
Tanzania	11.07911	0.679