Table 1.

Extracted data from articles that are included in the meta-analysis.

Reference	Author	Year of study	Year of publication	Country	Continent	Age group (years)	Number of total eyes	Number of eyes that have infectious keratitis
[49]	F. Llovet-Osuna	2002–2009	2010	Spain	Europe	37.5 (19–62)	262191	82
[50]	Giselle C. De Oliveira	1997–2002	2006	Brazil	South America	30.33	8508	10
[44]	Robert T. Lin	1997	1999	United States of America	North America	—	1019	1
[51]	Keith J. Wroblewski	1995–2004	2006	United States of America	North America	—	25337	5
[52]	Fernando Llovet	2002–2008	2010	Spain	Europe	35.5	204586	72
[53]	Rene´e Solomon	2001	2003	United States of America	North America	—	338550	160
[54]	Majid Moshirfar	1996–2004	2007	United States of America	North America	—	10477	33
[55]	Rene´e Solomon	2008	2011	United States of America	North America	—	20941	19
[56]	Victoria De Rojas	2003–2009	2011	Spain	Europe	38.1 (25–64)	18651	39
[57]	Julio Ortega-Usobiaga	2010–2013	2015	Spain	Europe	21–70	108014	21
[58]	Julie M. Schallhorn	2008–2015	2017	United States of America	North America	—	645957	37
[59]	Takeshi Ide	2007–2007	2014	Japan	Asia	—	22415	1
[60]	F. Llovet-Osuna	—	2014	Spain	Europe	—	351712	147
[48]	Sepehr Feizi	—	2007	Iran	Asia	28.2 (19–49)	200	49