Pneumococcal Serotype 5 Colonization Prevalence Among Newly Arrived Unaccompanied Children 1 Year After an Outbreak-Texas, 2015.
In 2014, an acute respiratory illness outbreak affected unaccompanied children from Central America entering the United States; 9% of 774 surveyed children were colonized with Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5. In our 2015 follow-up survey of 475 children, serotype 5 was not detected, and an interim recommendation to administer 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to all unaccompanied children was discontinued.
From the *Epidemic Intelligence Service and †Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; ‡Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families, Washington, DC; §US-Mexico Unit, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Epidemiology and Immunization Services Branch, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, San Diego, CA; ¶Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland; and ‖Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Diego, California.
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