The efficacy of immunizing children who are forced migrants against diphtheria and tetanus based on the results of serological studies

The results of the serological study of 2,352 children aged 1-6 years who had arrived to the territory of the region without any documents on past immunization revealed that most of these children had sufficiently pronounced specific immunity to diphtheria (66.4%) and tetanus (83.6%) Thus the tactics of the prophylactic immunization of children having no relevant documents must be worked out with due regard to the results of serological studies.