Meta-analysis of the utility of culture, biopsy, and direct KOH examination for the diagnosis of onychomycosis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Study description

Author	Year	N	Gender		Age range in years (Mean)	Agents
Author	Year	N	#W^a	#M^b		#D^c	#Y^d	#NDM^e
Lawry et al. [11]	2000	63	29	34	33–93	13	1	7
Borkowski et al. [13]	2001	50	31	19	11–98 (56)	NR	NR	NR
Weinberg et al. [26]	2003	105	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Karimzadegan-Nia et al. [14]	2007	96	54	42	NR	9	13	3
Hsiao et al. [22]	2007	88	41	47	18–80 (50^±16)	NR	NR	NR
Shenoy et al. [28]	2008	101	61	40	16–80 (45)	11	2	22
Alkhayat et al. [25]	2009	141	NR	NR	NR	28	15	30
Wilsmann-Theis et al. [21]	2011	1146	367	779	(56)	NR	NR	NR
Haghani et al. [20]	2013	101	79	22	NR	5	23	32
Jung et al. [27]	2015	493	222	271	(55^±16)	130	1	19
Jeelani et al. [15]	2015	216	104	112	1–90 (36^±17)	70	30	26
Hajar et al. [24]	2015	192	NR	NR	NR	29	6	NR
Velasquez et al. [23]	2016	66	50	16	19–87 (55^±16)	13	16	24
		2858	1038	1382	0	308	107	163

Absolute frequency of ^aWomen ^bMen ^cDermatophytes ^dYeasts ^eNon-dermatophyte moulds

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