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Multistate Outbreak of Respiratory Infections Among Unaccompanied Children, June 2014–July 2014
Author(s) -
Sara Tomczyk,
Carmen Sofia Arriola,
Bernard Beall,
Alvaro J. Benitez,
Stephen R. Benoit,
LaShondra Berman,
Joseph S. Bresee,
Maria da Glória Carvalho,
Amanda Cohn,
Kristen E. Cross,
Maureen H. Diaz,
Louise Francois Watkins,
Ryan Gierke,
José E. Hagan,
Aaron M. Harris,
Seema Jain,
Lindsay Kim,
Miwako Kobayashi,
Stephen Lindstrom,
Lesley McGee,
Meredith McMorrow,
Benjamin L. Metcalf,
Matthew R. Moore,
Iaci Moura,
W. Allan Nix,
Edith Nyangoma,
M. Steven Oberste,
Sonja J. Olsen,
Fabiana Cristina Pimenta,
Christina SociasMorales,
Kathleen A. Thurman,
Jessica L. Waller,
Stephen H. Waterman,
Matthew Westercamp,
Melinda Wharton,
Cynthia G. Whitney,
Jonas M. Winchell,
Bernard J. Wolff,
Curi Kim
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciw147
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , covid-19 , pediatrics , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
From January 2014-July 2014, more than 46 000 unaccompanied children (UC) from Central America crossed the US-Mexico border. In June-July, UC aged 9-17 years in 4 shelters and 1 processing center in 4 states were hospitalized with acute respiratory illness. We conducted a multistate investigation to interrupt disease transmission.

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