Table 1. Search strategy in PubMed.

Search number	Query	Results
4	(("Peptides"[Mesh] OR Peptide*[tiab] OR Epitope*[tiab] AND (humans[Filter])) AND ("Microarray Analysis"[Mesh] OR Microarray*[tiab] OR Biochip*[tiab] OR Chip*[tiab] OR Array*[tiab] AND (humans[Filter]))) AND (Infestation*[tiab] OR Infection*[tiab] OR "Infectious disease*"[tiab] OR "Communicable disease*"[tiab] OR "Contagious disease*"[tiab] OR "Transmissible disease*"[tiab] OR Pathogen[tiab] OR Pathogens[tiab] AND (humans[Filter]))	3,337
3	Infestation*[tiab] OR Infection*[tiab] OR "Infectious disease*"[tiab] OR "Communicable disease*"[tiab] OR "Contagious disease*"[tiab] OR "Transmissible disease*"[tiab] OR Pathogen[tiab] OR Pathogens[tiab]	1,098,661
2	"Microarray Analysis"[Mesh] OR Microarray*[tiab] OR Biochip*[tiab] OR Chip*[tiab] OR Array*[tiab]	178,487
1	"Peptides"[Mesh] OR Peptide*[tiab] OR Epitope*[tiab]	1,720,729

[Tiab] means the title and abstract were searched.