Study	Reason for exclusion
Alizadeh 2014	Used oral medication
Amos 1994	Used a composite symptom score only
Attila 1993	Used a mixture of drugs
Boyle 1986	Used a composite outcome score only
Brown 1990	Used a composite outcome score only
Cauwenbergh 1986	Used a composite outcome score only
Chappell 2014	Used a composite outcome score only
Cheng 2001	Not a randomised trial (as assessed by native speaker)
Cicek 2009	Does not involve antifungal drugs
Comert 2007	Used a composite outcome score only
CTRI/2009/091/001079	Used a combination of antifungals for treatment
Davies 1999	Combined antifungal with another drug having a different mode of action
Efalith Trial Group 1992	Used a mixture of lithium and zinc
Emad 2000	Abstract with insufficient data; no full text retrieved
Emtestam 2012	Drugs used in this trial were not antifungal
Ermosilla 2005	Outcome variable used is a composite of symptom scores; this falls within our exclusion criteria
Ernst 1990	Non-randomised study
Ford 1984	Evaluated orally administered ketoconazole
Gayko 2006	Ketoconazole was compared with a combination of ketoconazole and another drug
Goldust 2013(a)	No outcomes reported
Gupta 2006	This was a qualitative review
Humke 2002	Conference abstract; not able to retrieve full text
Iraji 2005	Abstract; did not provide enough data; not able to retrieve full text
Iudica 2001	This was a commentary on another article (Parsad 2001a)
Jensen 2009	Abstract with insufficient data; not able to retrieve full text
Kaszuba 2005	Study evaluated orally administered Itraconazole
Koca 2003	Used a composite outcome score only
Kozlowska 2007	Used a composite outcome score only
Li 1996	Not a randomised trial as assessed by native speaker
Loden 2000	Combined antifungal with a drug having a different mode of action
Lorette 2006	Combined 2 antifungals versus a third antifungal (or placebo) (ciclopiroxolamine/zinc pyrithione)
Meyer-Rohn 1979	This study deals with patients with non-seborrhoeic dermatitis
NCT00703846	Open-label phase 4 trial without control group
NCT01139749	Used oral medication
Ozcan 2007	Metronidazole is not an antifungal
Parsad 2001	Metronidazole is not an antifungal
Pedrinazzi 2009	Used peat; we excluded herbal treatments
Peter 1995	Used a composite outcome score only
Pierard-Franchimont 2002b	Used a composite outcome score only
Pierard-Franchimont 2002c	Outcome variables in this study were sebum excretion rate and percentage of anagen hair, which did not fulfil our inclusion criteria
Prensner 2003	This is a commentary on a study that was previously conducted
Quadri 2005	Authors (Milani) were contacted; data not available anymore
Rigoni 1989	Non-randomised study
Salmanpoor 2012	This was a Letter to the Editor
Scaparro 2001	Used oral medication
Schmidt-Rose 2011	Used a composite outcome score only
Schwartz 2013	Combined antifungal with a drug having a different mode of action (zinc pyrithione and climbazole)
Seite 2009	Combined antifungal with a drug having a different mode of action
Siadat 2006	Metronidazole is not an antifungal
Sparavigna 2013	Combined 2 antifungals vs placebo
Squire 2002	Combined antifungal with a drug having a different mode of action
Syed 2008	Herbal extract
Trznadel-Grodzka 2012	This study was not a clinical trial
Vena 2005	Used a composite outcome score only
Xu 1996	Not a randomised trial (as assessed by native speaker)