In our second episode for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020, Dan and Kristin spoke to Dr Brendan McMullan. Brendan is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist and Microbiologist, working at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health at UNSW.

We discuss:

• the reasons why choice of antimicrobial can be different for children

• special considerations for paediatric antimicrobial use

• why kids get more infections than adults

• strategies for explaining a decision not to prescribe an antimicrobial

• how Kristin ruined her kindergarten Christmas play