Intestinal parasite screening in internationally adopted children: importance of multiple stool specimens.

Abstract

We provide data for evidence-based guidelines for intestinal parasite screening in internationally adopted children.

Gastrointestinal symptoms were not predictive of pathogen recovery, and multiple stool specimens increased pathogen identification in this high-risk group of children.

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Subjects

• Adoption
• Age Factors
• Blastocystis hominis
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Feces
• Female
• Giardia lamblia
• Humans
• Infant
• Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic
• Logistic Models
• Male
• Multivariate Analysis
• Nutritional Status
• Prevalence
• World Health

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Authors

• Mary Allen Staat
• Marilyn Rice
• Stephanie Donauer
• Sheena Mukkada
• Michol Holloway
• Amy Cassedy
• Jennifer Kelley
• Shelia Salisbury

Publication date

2012-02-22

Journal

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Pediatrics

Division of Infectious Diseases, MLC 7013, International Adoption Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 7036, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA. mary.staat [at] cchmc.org

Release reference

Pediatrics. 2011 Sep;128(3):e613-22

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