“…Pediatric formularies were searched to identify the dosing regimens for each antibiotic to treat each clinical infection. The following national and international formularies were chosen, in order to cover the range of regimen per drug, that are used globally: British National Formulary for Children, 26 Dutch/German Database for Pediatric Dosing (Kinderformularium), 27 German Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Handbook, 28 Swiss Database for Dosing Medicinal Products in Pediatrics (SwissPedDose), 29 Indian National Center for Disease Control guidance, 30 Nelson's Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy (Bradley et al), 31 Manual of Childhood Infections (Blue Book), 32 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book), 33 and the WHO Pocket Book. 34 For the three infectious diseases, pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis, dosing guidance was extracted from each formulary.…”