“…The included studies and their characteristics like first author, year of publication, population, disease, genetic variant, odds ratio, genotyping method, risk allele, sample size (cases and control) and male female distribution and their quality assessment score were tabulated. All the included articles described some variant of pneumonia infection, one study discussing Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection ( Zhao et al, 2017 ), CAP ( Moroz et al, 2011 ; Salnikova et al, 2013a ; Salnikova et al, 2013c ; Salnikova et al, 2010 ; Smelaya et al, 2011 ), NP ( Salnikova et al, 2014 ), both CAP and NP ( Salnikova et al, 2013b ; Salnikova et al, 2008 ) and relapsing pneumonia ( Korytina et al, 2005 ). The included cases were diagnosed by experienced professionals based on symptoms, medical histories and the clinical, radiology or laboratory results (chest X-ray, spirometry measures, etc.…”