About the Authors

Dorine M. Borensztajn

Contributed equally to this work with: Dorine M. Borensztajn, Nienke N. Hagedoorn

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

d.borensztajn@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Nienke N. Hagedoorn

Contributed equally to this work with: Dorine M. Borensztajn, Nienke N. Hagedoorn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Irene Rivero Calle

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Genetics, Vaccines, Infections and Pediatrics Research Group (GENVIP), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Ian K. Maconochie

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ulrich von Both

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München, Germany

Enitan D. Carrol

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Juan Emmanuel Dewez

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Marieke Emonts

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Great North Children’s Hospital, Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Allergy, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre Based at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Michiel van der Flier

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Amalia Children’s Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ronald de Groot

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Stichting Katholieke Universiteit, Radboudumc Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jethro Herberg

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Benno Kohlmaier

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Emma Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Great North Children’s Hospital, Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Allergy, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Federico Martinon-Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Genetics, Vaccines, Infections and Pediatrics Research Group (GENVIP), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Daan Nieboer

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ruud G. Nijman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Marko Pokorn

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Univerzitetni Klinični Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Franc Strle

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Univerzitetni Klinični Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Maria Tsolia

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Second Department of Paediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, P. and A. Kyriakou Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

Clementien Vermont

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department Pediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Shunmay Yeung

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Dace Zavadska

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rīgas Stradiņa Universitāte, Children Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

Werner Zenz

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Michael Levin

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Henriette A. Moll

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

on behalf of PERFORM consortium: Personalised Risk assessment in febrile children to optimise Real-life Management across the European Union

Membership of the PERFORM Consortium is provided in S1 Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.