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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 3. EMBASE search strategy.

No. Query
#16 #1 AND #13 AND #14 AND [embase]/lim AND [1-1-1980]/sd NOT [26-1 1-2012]/sd
#15 #1 AND #13 AND #14
#14 ’kaposi sarcoma’/exp OR ’kaposi sarcoma’ OR ’human herpesvirus 8′/exp OR ’human herpesvirus 8′ OR kaposi*:ab,ti OR karposi*:ab,ti OR ks:ab,ti OR ’human herpes virus 8′:ab,ti OR ’hhv-8′:ab,ti OR hhv8:ab,ti OR kshv:ab,ti
#13 #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12
#12 ’observational study’/exp OR (observational NEXT/1 (study OR studies)):ab,ti
#11 ’evaluation’/exp OR (evaluation NEXT/1 (study OR studies)):ab,ti
#10 ’cross-sectional study’/exp OR (cross NEXT/1 section*):ab,ti
#9 ’case control study’/exp OR ’case control’:ab,ti
#8 ’cohort analysis’/exp OR ’cohort analysis’ OR ’longitudinal study’/exp OR ’longitudinal study’ OR ’prospective study’/exp OR ’prospective study’ OR ’follow up’/exp OR ’follow up’ OR cohort*:ab,ti OR ’longitudinal studies’:ab,ti OR ’prospective studies’:ab,ti
#7 #2 NOT #6
#6 #3 NOT #5
#5 #3 AND #4
#4 ’human’/de
#3 ’animal’/de OR ’nonhuman’/de OR ’animal experiment’/de
#2 ’randomised controlled trial’/de OR ’randomised controlled trial (topic)’/exp OR random*:ab,ti OR trial:ti OR allocat*:ab,ti OR placebo*:ab,ti OR ’crossover procedure’/de OR ’double-blind procedure’/de OR 'single-blind procedure’/de OR (doubl* NEAR/3 blind*):ab,ti OR(singl* NEAR/3 blind*):ab,ti OR crossover*:ab,ti OR cross+over*:ab,ti OR (cross NEXT/1 over*) :ab,ti
#1 ’human immunodeficiency virus infection’/exp OR ’human immunodeficiency virus’/exp OR ’human immunodeficiency virus’:ab,ti OR ’human immuno+deficiency virus’:ab,ti OR ’human immunedeficiency virus’:ab,ti OR ’human immune+deficiency virus’:ab,ti OR hiv:ab,ti OR ’hiv-1′:ab,ti OR ’hiv-2′:ab,ti OR ’acquired immunodeficiency syndrome’:ab, ti OR ’acquired immuno+deficiency syndrome’:ab,ti OR ’acquired immunedeficiency syndrome’:ab,ti OR ’acquired immune+deficiency syndrome’:ab,ti