Table 3. Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
•Systematic review, randomised controlled trial or multi-centre study investigating antibiotic therapy in children with complicated or uncomplicated SAM •Where resistance patterns were investigated, information on antimicrobial testing methodologies documented	•Published before 2010 •Not pertaining to treatment in humans (unless informing pharmacokinetics) •Data pertaining to carriage rates only •Irrelevant to clinical question •Duplicates •Correspondence •Case reports or epidemiological studies