TABLE 5.

Strategies for management of vaccine-preventable infections in international adoptees

Strategy
1. Accept all appropriate preadoption records of immunization
2. Measure serum antibodies against vaccine-preventable pathogens for which reliable testing is available; if present, accept all corresponding preadoption records of immunization
3. Measure serum antibodies against vaccine-preventable pathogens for which reliable testing is available; if positive, consider the child to have received one immunization in the series
4. Accept no preadoption records of immunization; immunize all adoptees with age-appropriate vaccinations