title: [Actual antimicrobial chemotherapy prescription in infant and child].
abstract: Antimicrobial chemotherapy prescription should take into account the following items: 1) accurate diagnosis (most often clinical) and definition criteria of infectious diseases; 2) treatment justification; 3) confirmation of a bacterial etiology (now facilitated in some clinical situations by broadly available easy-to-use rapid diagnosis tests); 4 evidence-based antimicrobial choices; 5) modalities of prescriptions guided by official authorities (guidelines from French agency of medicinal products).
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie générale, hôpital Robert-Debré, 48, boulevard Sérurier, 75935 Paris cedex 19, France. antoine.bourrillon@rdb.aphp.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bourrillon
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benoist
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bingen
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents