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. 2021 May 4;20:114. doi: 10.1186/s12939-021-01441-2

Table 1.

Search terms for Ovid MEDLINE

1 [final searches]
2 exp Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena/
3 Milk, Human/
4 Infant Formula/ or milk substitutes/ or infant food/
5 (infant feeding* or breastfe* or breast-fe* or bottle fe* or bottlefe* or infant formula* or breastmilk or breast milk or wean or weaned or weaning).mp.
6 ((feeding or fed or food or foods) adj2 (solid or solids or formula or baby or babies or infant or infants or infancy)).mp.
7 or/2–6
8 South Africa/
9 south africa*.mp,jw.
10 (Port Elizabeth or Bloemfontein or Johannesburg or Durban or Polokwane or Mbombela or Klerksdorp or Kimberley or Cape Town).mp.
11 (Eastern Cape or Free State or Gauteng or KwaZulu-Natal or Limpopo or Mpumalanga or Northern Cape or Western Cape or North West province).mp.
12 or/8–11
13 7 and 12
14 limit 13 to yr = “2006–2020”
15 14 not (animals not humans).sh.

Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL, searched on April 16, 2020, and updated on June 1, 2020