Data release: targeted systematic literature search for tick and tick-borne pathogen distributions in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 1901 to 2020

Table 2 Country breakdown of article inclusion at each criteria stage

Database	Chad	Djibouti	Ethiopia	Kenya	Tanzania	Uganda	Totals
CABI	38	61	406	1853	551	267	3176
Web of Science	32	10	186	668	205	141	1242
Scopus	37	27	476	549	391	274	1754
PubMed	37	27	450	835	454	369	2172
Additional from secondary sourcing	0	4	0	2	7	0	13
Total	144	129	1518	3907	1608	1051	8357
Removed duplicates	46	45	606	1316	606	397	3016
Removed based on title	34	64	327	1697	654	155	2931
Removed based on abstract	28	4	259	491	227	195	1204
Removed based on article	29	7	186	244	65	253	784
Adjusting for multicountry studies^a	1	1	5	1	3	5	16
Inaccessible^b	1	0	23	37	12	18	91
Total extracted	5	8	112	121	41	28	315

^a12 final included articles focused on multiple countries
^bThe full articles were unrecoverable through databases, online searches, and interlibrary loan requests

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