title: Strategies in infectious disease prevention and management among US-bound refugee children.
abstract: For multiple reasons, including exposure to violence or trauma, nutritional deficiencies, and an inconsistent medical infrastructure, refugee children are at an increased risk for many infectious diseases. Among these are tuberculosis, malaria, helminthic infections, and neglected tropical diseases. Our purposes are to review the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's pre-departure program of testing and presumptive therapy for these infections and to review the possible presentations, symptomatology, diagnostic tools, and recommended therapies, if necessary, upon arrival to the US. An understanding of these non-endemic infections, their diagnosis, and their management will improve the domestic medical exam and help to ease the transition for newly arrived immigrant children, their families, and their receiving communities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Khoi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Alison C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Tribble
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004522:Educational Status; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008403:Mass Screening; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012036:Refugees; D012307:Risk Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States