Fig 1.
Flow chart of study search and selection strategy.
The flow diagram shows the numbers of titles and studies reviewed in preparation of this meta-analysis of S. japonicum infection prevalence in rodents across China.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the eligible studies.
Fig 2.
Forest plot and pooled estimates of S. japonicum infection prevalence in rodents across China.
The diamond delimits the 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of a random effects model. The included studies were ordered by year of publication.
Fig 3.
Forest plot of S. japonicum infection prevalence in rodents pooled by subgroups.
The diamond delimits the 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of a random effects model. The forest was ordered in values of pooled schistosome prevalence.
Table 2.
Pooled prevalence of S. japonicum infections in wild rodents across China or by subgroups with meta-analysis.
Pooled prevalence was obtained via aggregation of the results of multiple studies by weighting the results of each study according to its variance.
Table 3.
Pooled prevalence of infections in rodents sub-grouped by regions and study period.
Pooled prevalence was obtained via aggregation of the results of multiple studies by weighting the results of each study according to its variance. For example, the pooled prevalence of HM in 1980–2003 was 0.00026% (written as 0.00).
Table 4.
Pooled prevalence of S. japonicum infections in rodents by species with meta-analysis.
Pooled prevalence was obtained via aggregation of the results of multiple studies by weighting the results of each study according to its variance.
Fig 4.
Funnel plots of the Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformed prevalence of S. japonicum infection in rodents.
The vertical lines and diagonal dashed lines represent the overall estimated effect size and its 95% confidence limits, respectively. Each dot represents a different study.
Fig 5.
Egger’s publication bias plot of the included studies of the effect of S. japonicum infection prevalence in rodents.
The size of circles indicates the sample size of an individual study.