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Table 2 Characteristics of excluded studies

From: Efficacy and safety of abacavir-containing combination antiretroviral therapy as first-line treatment of HIV infected children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Reasons for exclusion

Flynn 2014 [33]

Non-disaggregation of the results into different NRTI arms

Kline 1999 [34]

Having abacavir in all the arms

Musiime 2013 [35]

Measured outcomes are not of interest

Nahirya-Ntege 2011 [12]

Having abacavir in all the arms

Neely 2013 [36]

Having abacavir in all the arms

Penpact-1 2011 [37]

Non-disaggregation of the results into different NRTI arms

Sáez-Llorens 2001 [38]

Previously treated children