“…Our systematic literature search yielded 1694 manuscripts using the established search strategies. As per the eligibility criteria (after exclusion of duplicate texts and articles related to other topics and exclusion of text based on review criteria or owing to method quality), 182 studies were selected for analysis ( Table 1 ) [ 2 – 4 , 6 , 7 , 9 – 25 , 27 – 37 , 39 , 40 , 42 – 45 , 47 – 56 , 58 , 60 – 63 , 65 – 69 , 71 , 72 , 74 , 75 , 77 – 83 , 85 – 93 , 95 – 104 , 106 – 109 , 111 , 114 – 123 , 125 – 130 , 132 , 135 , 136 , 138 – 140 , 142 – 146 , 148 – 150 , 153 – 164 , 167 , 169 – 173 , 175 – 192 , 194 – 204 , 207 – 210 , 212 – 215 , 217 – 219 ]. Of these studies, 166 evaluated the prevalence of Entamoeba spp.…”