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You are caring for a 2-week-old term baby girl with Escherichia coli early-onset neonatal sepsis and meningitis. After 5 days of inpatient antibiotic treatment, she is much improved, and your consultant asks you to explore options for continuing intravenous antibiotic therapy at home. You begin writing, ‘Ready for discharge to complete 21 day course of IV cef-’, when a colleague taps you on the shoulder to remind you, ‘We don’t give ceftriaxone to babies. It causes kernicterus’.