Evaluating the appropriateness of laboratory testing and antimicrobial use in South African children hospitalized for community-acquired infections

• Lydia Mapala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lydia Mapala, Adrie Bekker, Angela Dramowski

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

  * E-mail: lydiamapala@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3945-4216

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• Adrie Bekker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lydia Mapala, Adrie Bekker, Angela Dramowski

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Angela Dramowski

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lydia Mapala, Adrie Bekker, Angela Dramowski

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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