| Search set | CIDG SRa | CENTRAL | MEDLINEb | EMBASEb | LILACSb |
| 1 | multi‐drug resistant tuberculosis | TUBERCULOSIS MULTIDRUG‐RESISTANT | TUBERCULOSIS MULTIDRUG‐RESISTANT | TUBERCULOSIS | tuberculosis |
| 2 | MDR‐TB | multidrug resistant tuberculosis | multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis | MULTIDRUG‐RESISTANCE | drug resistance |
| 3 | — | multiple drug resistant tuberculosis | MDR tuberculosis | 1 and 2 | 1 and 2 |
| 4 | — | drug resistant tuberculosis | MDR‐TB | multidrug resistant tuberculosis | TUBERCULOSIS FARMACO‐RESISTENTE |
| 5 | — | MDR‐TB | multi‐drug resistant tuberculosis | multiple drug resistant tuberculosis | TUBERCULOSIS RESISTENTE A DROGAS |
| 6 | — | 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 | drug‐resistant tuberculosis | drug resistant tuberculosis | 3 or 4 or 5 |
| 7 | — | — | multiple drug resistant tuberculosis | MDR tuberculosis | — |
| 8 | — | — | 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 | MDR TB | — |
| 9 | — | — | — | 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 | — |