Table 1.
Characteristics of the Studies Included in Meta-analysis.
| Reference | Country | Published year | No. of isolates |
Susceptibility
test |
Synergy method(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timurk [10] | Turkey | 2005 | 60 | Agar dilution | Checkerboard |
| Tripodi [6] | Italy | 2007 | 9 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Ibanez [11] | Spain | 2010 | 4 | Agar dilution | Time-kill |
| Lee [12] | USA | 2013 | 2 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Shields [13] | USA | 2010 | 17 | E-test | Checkerboard |
| Rodriguez [14] | Argentina | 2010 | 14 | Agar dilution | Time-kill |
| Giamarel [8] | Greece | 2001 | 39 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Song [15] | South Korea | 2007 | 8 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Montero [5] | Spain | 2004 | 2 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Hogg [16] | England | 1998 | 13 | Micro dilution | Checkerboard |
| Liang [17] | China | 2011 | 4 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Dizbay [18] | Turkey | 2009 | 25 | E-test | Checkerboard |
| Chang [19] | Taiwan | 2010 | 134 | Micro dilution | Checkerboard |
| Dong [20] | China. | 2014 | 25 | Micro dilution | Checkerboard |
| Jian [21] | Australia | 2007 | 17 | Micro dilution | Checkerboard |
| Giannouli [9] | Italy | 2011 | 57 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |
| Antonopoulou [22] | Greece | 2007 | 18 | Micro dilution | Time-kill |