Bacterial Profile among Patients with Suspected Bloodstream Infections in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Subgroup pooled prevalence analysis of bacterial isolates among patients suspected of bloodstream infection in Ethiopia, 2020.

Subgroup by	Characteristics	No. of studies	Total sample size	Pooled prevalence rate (95% CI)	HeterogeneityI^2 ( values)
Study area	Oromia [35, 38, 42]	3	731	19.45 (6.41, 32.48)	95.5% (<0.001)
	Amhara [7, 8, 11, 14, 36, 40, 44, 45, 52–54]	11	4,050	31.11 (24.28, 37.95)	95.8% (<0.001)
	Addis Ababa [16, 41, 43, 46, 48–50, 55, 56]	9	2,926	24.05 (17.27, 30.83)	95.0% (<0.001)
	Others [39, 47, 51]	3	1,251	18.23 (8.88, 27.58)	99.0% (<0.001)
Sample size	>300 [8, 11, 35, 36, 39–41, 43, 48–52, 54]	14	6,840	26.76 (23.62, 33.90)	96.0% (<0.001)
	≤300 [7, 14, 16, 37, 38, 42, 44–47, 53, 56]	12	2,118	21.53 (14.92, 28.14)	94.1% (<0.001)
Publication year	2000–2014 [7, 11, 38, 42, 48, 52, 53]	7	2,134	21.59 (15.27, 27.90)	82.9% (<0.001)
	2015–2020 [8, 14, 16, 35–41, 43–47, 49–51, 54]	19	6,824	27.31 (22.02, 32.60)	96.4% (<0.001)
Overall		26	8,958	25.78 (21.55, 30.01)	95.8% (<0.001)

Others: Tigray, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region, and Dire Dawa.