TY - JOUR T1 - Thresholds for antibiotic resistance at which we change empirical treatment choices JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F463 LP - F463 DO - 10.1136/adc.2010.198093 VL - 95 IS - 6 AU - Michael Millar Y1 - 2010/11/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/95/6/F463.1.abstract N2 - In a recent paper published in this journal,1 the laboratory results from 1516 infants with laboratory-confirmed early neonatal infections were reported for the 27-month period up to March 2008 (approximately 674 cases per year). Six per cent of laboratory isolates from infants younger than 48 h were reported as resistant to empirical treatment with penicillin and gentamicin. This means that 40 infants (6% of 674 infants per year) would have received antibiotic treatment to … ER -