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Distribution of authors of 186 manuscripts submitted to Biochemia Medica (in the period of February 2013 until April 2015) and forwarded to Research Integrity Editor according to country (Turkey (157), Croatia (149), Italy (114), Spain (54), Serbia (42), Poland (34), Austria (28), Bulgaria (28), India (25), Other (Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Russia, Macedonia, Greece, Egypt, Congo, Romania, Ireland, China, Pakistan, Colombia, Norway, UK, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, France, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, USA, Thailand) (173)).

Urgent care center affiliated with Hospital Centro Oriente: “CAMI Perseverancia.” (CAMI: Centros de Atención Médica Inmediata).

The searches identified 225 relevant citations, 28 of which were dengue-related sources fulfilling the inclusion criteria. All references identified in the on-line database searches were assigned a unique identification number. Following the removal of duplicates and articles that did not satisfy the inclusion criteria from review of the titles and abstracts, the full papers of the first selection of references were retrieved either electronically or in paper form. A further selection was made based on review of the full text of the articles. ASTMH, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; EMBASE, Excerpta Medica Database; LILACS, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Database; LRG, Literature Review Group; PAHO, Pan American Health Organization; PRISMA, preferred reporting items of systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses; SciELO, Scientific Electronic Library Online (*includes access to LILACS and PAHO databases); VHL, Virtual Health Library. Other^† includes unique references identified from other reference sources detailed in the protocol and LRG bibliographies.