Manual of Childhood Infection

Mike Sharland is a Consultant at the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit at St George's Hospital, London He is a recognized expert in optimising antimicrobial use in children. He is a board member of ESPID, Chair of ESPID Research Committee, Previous Chair of ESPID Training Committee, and Chair of RCPCH Standing Committee on Infection and Immunisation and Chair of the UK Medicines for Children Research Network Allergy, Infection and Immunity Clinical Study Group. He is also the Joint Chair of the Pediatric European Network for Trials in Infection.

Adam Finn- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Adilia Warris- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK
Alasdair Bamford- Paediatric Infectious Disease, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Alfredo Guarino- Public Health England, Centre for Infections Services, London, UK
Alison Kent- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Alyson Elliman- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, Croydon, UK
Andrew Pollard- Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Andrew Riordan- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
Anita Modi- Acute Paediatric Services, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK
Anna Papa- Professor and Head of Hellenic Reference Lab for Arboviruses, A' Dept. of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Annemarie van Rossum- Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Aspasia Katragkou- Infectious Diseases Unit, 3rd Department of Pediatrics, Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Athimalaipet Ramanan- School of Clincial Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol UK
Austen Worth- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, Croydon, UK
Beatriz Larru- The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Bhanu Williams- Department of Paediatrics, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK
Carlo Giaquinto- Department of Women and Child Health, University of Padova, Italy
Charalampos Antachopoulos- 3rd Dept Pediatrics, Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Christopher Parry- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Cilian O Maoldomhnaigh- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Claire Rohan- Whittington Health, Haringey Children Community Health Services, St Ann's Hospital, London, UK
David Elliman- Whittington Health, Haringey Children Community Health Services, St Ann's Hospital, London, UK
David Hill- Institute for Global Public Health, School of Medicine Quinnipiac University, Hamden, USA
Delane Shingadia- Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Despina Eleftheriou- Department of Rheumatology, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Dominique Legros- World Health Organization, New York, USA
Eda Tamm- Childrenäs Clinic of the Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
Eleni Nastouli- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Virology, University College London Hospital, UK
Eleri Williams- Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals, NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Emmanuel Roilides- Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Garth Dixon- Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Geoffrey Edwards- Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
GeorgI Christov- Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Herman Goossens- Research Centre for Control of Antibiotic Resistance, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hermione Lyall- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Herwig Kollaritsch- Institute for Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Hilary J Simons- National Travel Health Network and Centre, UK Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Hsin Chi- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Tapei, Taiwan
Ian Maconochie- St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK
Irja Lutsar- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Jan Bonhoeffer- Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Jane Wilson Howarth- The Travel Clinic, Cambridge, UK
Janet McCulloch- Regional Health Protection Nurse, Health Protection Agency, UK
Jennifer Handforth- Croydon University Hospital, Croydon, UK
Jethro Herberg- Section of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, UK
Jim Buttery- Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Monash & Royal Children's Hospitals, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jim Gray- Department of Microbiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Jo Seale- Barts Health NHS Trust, Department of Infection, London, UK
Jolanta Bernatoniene- Paediatric Infectious Disease & Immunology Department, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK
Julia M Kenney- Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
Karyn Moshal- Department of Infectious Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Katja Doerholt- Paediatric Infectious Diseases, St Georges NHS Trust, London, UK
Kirsty le Doare- Division of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
Lalith Wijedoru- Child and Reproductive Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Laura Folgori- Unit of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
Lei Ang-
Livia Gargiullo- Unit of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
Lorenza Romani- Unit of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
Lucinda Winckworth- Neonatal Unit, University College Hospital, London, UK
Manish Sadarangani- Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Marc Tebruegge- Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Southampton, UK
Maria Bitsori- Department of Paediatrics, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece
Maria Tsolia- Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Maribel González Tomé- Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency, Hospital 12 Octubre, Madrid, Spain
Marieke Emonts- Royal Victoria Infirmary, Great North Children's Hospital, UK
Marion Roderick- Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Bristol, Bristol, UK
Marta Palusinka Szysz- Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Mary Ramsay- Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department, Public Health England, London, UK
Mary Slack- Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Germany
Mary Slatter- Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Matthew Ellis- Academic Centre for Child & Adolescent Health, Bristol, UK
Matthew Snape- Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, UK
Michael Millar- Barts Health NHS Trust, Department of Infection, London, UK
Michiel van der Flier- Consultant Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Radboudu University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands, UK
Miguel O'Ryan- Microbiology and Mycology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Chile
Mitul Patel- Department of Microbiology Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK
Nan-Chang Chiu- Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Nicola Principi- Pediatric Department, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Nicole van der Kar- Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Nigel Klein- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Nikos Spyridis-Aglaia Kyriakou Children's Hospital, University of Athens, Greece
Nuria Martinez-Alier- Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Immunology and General Paediatrics, Evelina Children's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Pablo Yagupsky- Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel
Pat Tookey- Department of Paediatrics, University of Padova, Italy
Patrick Gavin -Our Lady's Children's Hospital and The Children's University Hospital Temple, Dublin, Ireland
Patrick M Meyer Sateur- Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Patrizia D'argenio- Cardiac Pediatric Surgery Department, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
Paul Brogan- UCL Institute of Child Health, and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
Paul Heath- Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. Georges, University of London, London, UK
Penelope Bryant- Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Peter Rudd- Children's Centre, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK
Philipp Henneke- University Medical Center Freiburg, Center for Chronic Immundefiency (CCI), Center for Pediatrics & Adolesc. Medicine, Germany
Piia Jõgi- University of Tartu Clinics, Children's Clinic of Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
Rahale Tavanayan Fard- Department of Paediatrics, Oxford Vaccine Group, Oxford, UK
Rebecca Salter- St Mary's Hospital, Imperial Healthcare, London, UK
Richard Cooke- University of Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
Rick Malley- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, USA
Robert Cunney- The Children's University Hospital Temple Street, and The Health Protection Surveillance Center, Dublin, Ireland
Rogier van Doorn- Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ron Dagan- Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Soroka University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Rosemarie Watson- Our Ladys Childrens Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Rowan Heath- Kingston Hospital NHS Trust, Kingston, UK
Samreen Ijaz- Public Health England, London, UK
Saul Faust- Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Southampton, Directoy, Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Southampton, UK
Scott Hackett- Immunodeficiency Centre, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK
Shalom Ben-Shimol- The Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center and The Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Shamez Ladhani- Public Health England, London, UK
Shelley Segal- University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Simon Drysdale- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
Stanley Plotkin- University of Pennsylvania Principal, Vaxconsult, USA
Stefi Vergnano- Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. Georges, University of London, London, UK
Steven Welch- Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
Sue Liebeschuetz- Barts Health NHS Trust, Department of Infection, London
Susanna Liviadiotti- Clinical Trials Centre, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
Suzanne Davison- Public Health England, London, UK
Suzanne Luck- Department of Paediatrics, Kingston Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, UK
T Ronan Leahy- Paediatric Immunology, Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin and Children's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Terho Heikkinen- Department of Paediatrics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Theoklis Zaoutis- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Theresa Cole- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Oxford, UK
Thomas Lehrnbecher- Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Children´s Hospital of the University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Tim Sell- Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, Oxford, UK
Tom Wolfs- University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
Ulrich Heininger- Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Vana Papaevangelou- Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Vas Novelli- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London, UK
Veronika Dvorakova- Royal College of Physcians or Ireland
Ville Peltola- Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
Jim Wai-Tim- Paediatric ICU Attending Physician, Tamshui Branch, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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