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Table 1.

Characteristics of the individual studies in this meta-analysis.

First Author	Publish Year	Ethnicity	Country	WHO Criteria	Matching Criteria of Controls	Method	N		Score NOS
First Author	Publish Year	Ethnicity	Country	WHO Criteria	Matching Criteria of Controls	Method	Severe Dengue	DF	Score NOS
Sakuntabhai [30]	2005	Asian	Thailand (RA)	1997	Gender	TaqMan	144	50	6
Sakuntabhai [30]	2005	Asian	Thailand (SI)	1997	Gender	TaqMan	124	66	6
Sakuntabhai [30]	2005	Asian	Thailand (KK)	1997	Gender	TaqMan	87	27	6
Silva [29]	2010	SCA	Brazil	1997	Gender and age	BeadArray	31	128	9
Wang [19]	2011	Asian	China	1997	Gender	TaqMan	106	157	6
Xavier-Carvalho [28]	2013	SCA	Brazil	2009	Age	TaqMan.	52	122	6
Alagarasu [27]	2013	Asian	India	1999	Unmentioned	PCR-RFLP	19	64	5
Noecker [25]	2014	SCA	Mexican	2009	Gender	TaqMan	33	51	6
Oliveira [26]	2014	SCA	Brazil	2009	Gender and age	TaqMan	67	74	8
Dang [36]	2016	Asian	Thailand	1997	Gender	TaqMan	415	331	6
Oliveira [37]	2018	Asian	Vietnam	1997	Unmentioned	TaqMan	20	21	6
Oliveira [37]	2018	Asian	Cambodia	1997	Unmentioned	TaqMan	93	57	6

SCA, South-central American; PCR-RFLP, polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism.