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Figure 1: PRISMA chart depicting the study selection process
Table 1: Catalogue of the studies assessing the effects of antimicrobial cycling on bacterial resistance rates; A p value<0.05 was regarded as the statistical threshold of significance in all studies and is accordingly recorded as such.