Table 1.

Study inclusion/exclusion criteria

Inclusion	Exclusion
Cross‐sectional prevalence study	Wrong type of study: not a cross‐sectional study or animals chosen for bTB symptoms
Study conducted in India	Study conducted elsewhere
Tested for Mycobacterium bovis using standard diagnostic tests	Study not addressing bTB
Any breed of cow or buffalo	Study neither performed on cow nor on buffalo
Reported the prevalence of bTB and the number of total animals screened	No statistics reported
In English	Language limitation: Not in English
Full text of publication obtained	Full text unavailable
	Other

Note. Criteria for study inclusion or exclusion to our systematic review on the prevalence of bTB in India.