Neonatal sepsis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis on national prevalence and causative pathogens

• Zahra Akbarian-Rad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Non-Communicable Pediatric Disease Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

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• Seyed Mohammad Riahi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran

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• Ali Abdollahi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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• Parisa Sabbagh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

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• Soheil Ebrahimpour,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

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• Mostafa Javanian,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

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• VeneelaKrishnaRekha Vasigala,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General medicine, Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, India

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• Ali Rostami

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alirostami1984@gmail.com

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran, Immunoregulation Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1358-1321

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