“…Moreover, seven studies included human, animal, and animal product specimens, three studies included both animal and animal products and the rest three included both human and animal products Table 1. A total of 1475 Salmonella serovars were isolated from 34 included studies. Of these, 430 were only from animal products [22-24, 26, 32, 36, 37, 40, 47, 48, 53], 331 were only from animal specimens [25,27,30,43,45,46,51,52], 249 were from human/animal/animal product [28,29,34,35,41,49,54] and the rest were from others samples [21,31,33,38,39,42,44,50] as presented on Table 1. Based on the region, the majority of the isolates (n = 487) were from Oromia region followed by Addis Ababa (n = 369), SNNRP (N = 159) and Amhara (n = 173) [26,50,52] (Fig 2).…”