Pneumococcal Serotype 5 Colonization Prevalence Among Newly Arrived Unaccompanied Children 1 Year After an

Miwako Kobayashi1, Lara Misegades, Katherine E Fleming-Dutra

  • 1From 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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