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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Aug 13;8:CD003256. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003256.pub2

Table 2. PubMed search strategy.

Search Query
#12 Search ((#1 AND #2 AND #10)) AND (“1980/01/01”[Date - Publication] : “2012/11/0”[Date - Publication])
#11 Search (#1 AND #2 AND #10)
#10 Search (#3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9)
#9 Search ((observational[tiab] AND (study[tiab] OR studies[tiab]))
#8 Search (evaluation studies as topic[mh:noexp] OR (evaluation[tiab] AND (study[tiab] OR studies[tiab]))
#7 Search (cross-sectional studies[mh] OR cross section*[tiab])
#6 Search (case control studies[mh] OR case control[tiab])
#5 Search ((follow up[tiab] OR prospective[tiab] OR longitudinal[tiab] OR retrospective[tiab]) AND (study[tiab] OR studies[tiab]))
#4 Search (cohort studies[mh] OR cohort[tiab] OR cohorts[tiab])
#3 Search (randomised controlled trial [pt] OR controlled clinical trial [pt] OR randomised [tiab] OR placebo [tiab] OR drug therapy [sh] OR randomly [tiab] OR trial [tiab] OR groups [tiab]) NOT (animals [mh] NOT humans [mh])
#2 Search sarcoma, kaposi[mh] OR kaposi*[tiab] OR karposi*[tiab] OR KS [tiab] OR herpesvirus 8, human[mh] OR human herpes virus 8[tiab] OR human herpesvirus 8[tiab] OR hhv-8[tiab] OR hhv8[tiab] OR KSHV[tiab]
#1 Search (HIV Infections[MeSH] OR HIV[MeSH] OR hiv[tiab] OR hiv-1*[tiab] OR hiv-2*[tiab] OR hiv1[tiab] OR hiv2[tiab] OR hiv infect*[tiab] OR human immunodeficiency virus[tiab] OR human immunedeficiency virus[tiab] OR human immuno-deficiency virus[tiab] OR human immune-deficiency virus[tiab] OR ((human immun*[tiab]) AND (deficiency virus[tiab])) ORacquired immunodeficiency syndrome [tiab] ORacquired immunedeficiency syndrome [tiab] OR acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome [tiab] ORacquired immune-deficiency syndrome [tiab] OR ((acquired immun*[tiab]) AND (deficiency syndrome[tiab])) OR “sexually transmitted diseases, Viral”[MeSH:NoExp])