Lack of Evidence for Conducting Meta‑analysis of Prevalence of Drug‑resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Iranian Burned Patients

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Department of Microbiology, Burn and Wound Healing Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Fars, Shiraz, Iran

10.4103/atr.atr_64_18

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Dear Editor, Recently, we read with great interest the meta‑analysis which was reported by Tarashi et al. [1] and evaluated the studies included in their article. We detected some important viewpoints about the validity of extracted data. In reported data about Japoni’s et al. study,[2] a serious blunder was seen in the frequency of drug resistance in Fars province‑Iran. According to the tarashi et al report, a bias was seen which

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  • Receive Date: 29 July 2018
  • Accept Date: 29 July 2018

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