Why internationally adopted children should be screened for tuberculosis

Why internationally adopted children should be screened for tuberculosis.

[Should children adopted from abroad be screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?].

BACKGROUND Patients with increased risk of colonisation with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are screened before admission to hospitals in Norway. Denmark and the Netherlands have introduced routine screening of all children adopted from abroad before hospital admission. The present study aims at identifying whether children adopted to Norway had a higher risk of being MRSA-p...

Medical evaluation of internationally adopted children.

BACKGROUND Despite many reports of medical illness in children adopted from abroad, there are currently no accepted guidelines for medical evaluation of this population. METHODS Two hundred ninety-three children adopted from 15 countries (mean age, 14.0 months; 55 percent girls) were evaluated by history taking, physical examination, and screening tests for hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immu...

Disinhibited social behavior among internationally adopted children.

Postinstitutionalized children frequently demonstrate persistent socioemotional difficulties. For example, some postinstitutionalized children display an unusual lack of social reserve with unfamiliar adults. This behavior, which has been referred to as indiscriminate friendliness, disinhibited attachment behavior, and disinhibited social behavior, was examined by comparing children internation...

Should all young children be screened for autism spectrum disorder?