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Specifically, studies that decrease the treatment length or advocate for the early transition of intravenous to oral antibiotics in all neonates with suspected or culture-positive sepsis or pneumonia should be regarded with caution. These studies are usually conducted through quality improvement initiatives without informed parental consent, and lack well-defined definitions for the infection of interest. They often fail to include sufficient information regarding well-documented variations in gestational age-based immune responses, and usually combine bacterial infections into a single group without considering virulence and pathophysiologic differences between gram-negative and gram-positive infections. 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