“…Supplementary Table S1 shows the characteristics of the studies in our analyses. Most studies (39 out of 45) [11–26, 28–30, 33–43, 45–52] were prospective in nature, 26 studies [7, 10, 12, 16, 18–20, 24, 28–31, 34–36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 46–48, 50, 52] reported on the diagnostic accuracy of the semi-quantitative method and 30 [7, 11–15, 17, 21–23, 25–27, 29, 32–34, 37–47, 50, 51] on quantitative methods such as catheter segment, IVD-drawn or paired lysis cultures. Three studies were conducted in Australia, and the rest were from the Americas (USA and Brazil), France, Spain and the UK.…”