Aminoglycoside use in paediatric febrile neutropenia – Outcomes from a nationwide prospective cohort study

• Brendan J. McMullan ,

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

  * E-mail: brendanoch@yahoo.co.uk

  Affiliations NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-3416

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• Gabrielle M. Haeusler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, The Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infection Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infection and Immunity Theme, The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Lisa Hall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Louise Cooley,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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• Andrew J. Stewardson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred and Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Christopher C. Blyth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Cheryl A. Jones,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network–The Children’s at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Pamela Konecny,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Immunology & Sexual Health, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia, St George & Sutherland Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Franz E. Babl,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Clinical Sciences, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Emergency Department, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT), Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Françoise Mechinaud,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Hôpital Robert Debré APHP Nord-Université de Paris, Paris, France

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• Karin Thursky,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, NHMRC National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• on behalf of the Australian PICNICC study group and the PREDICT network

  ¶Membership of the PICNICC study group and details of the PREDICT network are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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