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Clinical Microbiology Reviews, July 2005, p. 510-520, Vol. 18, No. 3
0893-8512/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CMR.18.3.510-520.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Epidemiology and Management of Infectious Diseases in International Adoptees

Thomas S. Murray, M. Elizabeth Groth, Carol Weitzman, and Michael Cappello*

Yale International Adoption Clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

International adoptees represent a group of children with unique health care needs. Data from published studies, along with the recent experience of the Yale International Adoption Clinic, suggest that the risk of serious infections in adoptees is low, although infections associated with institutionalization still occur commonly. Interpretation of these data must be undertaken with caution, however, since many, if not most, international adoptees are not evaluated in specialty clinics. Thus, prospective studies designed to minimize selection and referral bias are needed in order to accurately define the risk of infectious and noninfectious diseases in all international adoptees.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Yale Program in International Child Health, 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520. Phone: (203) 737-4320. Fax: (203) 737-5972. E-mail: michael.cappello{at}yale.edu.

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, July 2005, p. 510-520, Vol. 18, No. 3
0893-8512/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CMR.18.3.510-520.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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