Footnotes

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• Collaborators UK Paediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee: Sam Channon-Wells, Alicia Demirjian, Katja Doerholt, Simon Drysdale, James Hatcher, Avni Hindocha, Marieke Emonts, Sanjay Patel, Aisling Rafferty, Laura Ferras-Antolin, Ashifa Trivedi, Stefania Vergano, Anita Verma.

• Contributors AS, LH, PF and RC independently reviewed the guidelines discussed in this paper. AS, PM and LH contributed to the writing of the manuscript on behalf of and with the permission of the UK-PAS Committee. UK-PAS Committee members SC-W, AD, KD, SD, JH, AH, ME, SP, AR, LF-A, AT, SV and AV reviewed and provided comments on the manuscript.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.