TB Infection and Malnutrition Are Prevalent Among Internationally Adopted Children

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Adoption and Foster Care| February 01 2008 TB Infection and Malnutrition Are Prevalent Among Internationally Adopted Children AAP Grand Rounds (2008) 19 (2): 14–15. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.19-2-14 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation TB Infection and Malnutrition Are Prevalent Among Internationally Adopted Children. AAP Grand Rounds February 2008; 19 (2): 14–15. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.19-2-14 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All PublicationsAll JournalsAAP Grand RoundsPediatricsHospital PediatricsPediatrics In ReviewNeoReviewsAAP NewsAll AAP Sites Search Advanced Search Topics: adoption, international, malnutrition, tuberculin test, tuberculosis, adopted child Source: Mandalakas AM, Kirchner HL, Iverson S, et al. Predictors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in international adoptees. Pediatrics. 2007:120(3):e610–e616; doi:10.1542/peds.2006–2817 Investigators from Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, conducted a retrospective chart review of international adoptees seen in the International Adoption Clinic at the University of Minnesota between 1986 and 2001 to measure the factors that are associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in international adoptees. Tuberculin skin testing (TST) was performed on children on initial evaluation within one month of arrival in the US. All TSTs were performed by clinic staff, all of whom had completed formal training and used standardized methods. TSTs were read within 48 to 72 hours by health care professionals and results were recorded in millimeters of induration. TST induration of ≥10 mm was considered positive and indicative of M. tuberculosis infection. Clinic staff also... You do not currently have access to this content.