Infectious Diseases in Internationally Adopted Children: A Four-Year Review in a Tertiary Care Center
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Infectious diseases prevalence, vaccination coverage, and diagnostic challenges in a population of internationally adopted children referred to a Tertiary Care Children's Hospital from 2009 to 2015
Infectious diseases are common in internationally adopted children (IAC).With the objective to evaluate infectious diseases prevalence in a large cohort of IAC and to explore possible risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) and parasitic infections, clinical and laboratory data at first screening visit of all IAC (<18 years) consecutively referred to our Center in 2009 to 2015 were collected and ana...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/8.suppl_b.43bb