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. 2020 Sep 14;33(6):e14204. doi: 10.1111/dth.14204

TABLE 1.

MEDLINE and EMBASE search strategy

# Searches
1 Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus [mesh]
2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome [mesh]
3 SARS virus [mesh]
4 Betacoronavirus [mesh]
5 COVID‐19 [word text]
6 or/1–5
7 Immunosuppressive agents [pharmacological action]
8 Immunosuppression [mesh]
9 Psoriasis [word text]
10 Psoriatic arthritis [word text]
11 Transplants/therapy [mesh]
12 Transplants/transplantation [mesh]
13 biologic [word text]
14 Infliximab/therapeutic use [mesh]
15 Adalimumab/therapeutic use [mesh]
16 Steroids/drug therapy [mesh] OR
17 Steroids/pharmacology [mesh]
18 Steroids/therapeutic use [mesh]
19 Ustekinumab [mesh]
20 guselkumab [supplementary concept]
21 risankizumab [supplementary concept]
22 anti‐IL 23 [word text]
23 Ixekizumab [supplementary concept]
24 Secukinumab [supplementary concept]
25 Brodalumab [supplementary concept]
26 Bimekizumab [supplementary concept]
27 or/7‐26
28 animals/not humans/
29 27 not 28
30 and/6,29
31 limit 30 to (clinical conference or editorial)
32 30 not 31
33 remove duplicates from 32

Note: Database(s): NCBI PubMed Central (PMC) MEDLINE(R) U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library Medicine; Embase Classic+Embase 1947 to May 14, 2020 Search Strategy run on May 14, 2020.