3. RESULTS
From the total of 1,859 documents returned by the databases accessed,
using the search strategy and inclusion criteria described above, 71
articles were selected (Table 1). These studies are distributed in a
total of 24 countries, namely Iran (26), Taiwan (10), Egypt (4),
Malaysia (4), Brazil (3), Turkey (3), France (2), Italy (2) and USA (2).
One study was included from each of the following countries: Belgium,
Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Thailand. Among
the studies, 76.06% (54/71) used or included molecular methods to
identify FLA, while 23.94% (17/71) used only morphological methods.