Empiric antibiotic prescribing practices for gram-positive coverage of late-onset sepsis in neonatal intensive care units in North America

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ² Axe Maladies infectieuses et immunitaires, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
• ³ Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
• ⁵ Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Neonatology and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Center for Perinatal Research, Ohio Perinatal Research Network, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Pharmacy, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁹ Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada.