Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria by analysis

Analysis where that criteria was applied			Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Meta-analysis and subgroup analysis	Meta-analysis (quantitative-synthesis)	Qualitative description	Original articles written in English Published and peer-reviewed articles between January 2010 and April 2020 Addressed the status of pfhrp2, pfhrp3 and/or pfhrp2/3 deletions	It had been written in language different to English Published before 2010 Field isolates were not included Major bias had been detected
			Primary data on pfhrp2/3 deletion Molecular methodologies to detect deletions Quality of Cross-sectional study score ≥ 5 according to The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) (Munn Z, 2017) Sample size of ≥ 30	Year of samples had not been reported Data from more than 3 years are combined
			Placed in Sub-Saharan Africa It included malaria samples from population with different ages, not only children