In the initial evaluation of an immigrant child, we should give special attention to some factors that are not common in pediatrics. Knowing the origin country, migratory route and usual activities of the child will help us consider which imported infectious diseases we should consider and orient the diagnosis as early as possible. Furthermore, in these patients, we could have problems to know the backgrounds, as they may come from countries where infectious diseases having worldwide distribution are much more prevalent than in our setting and where it is likely that neither the children nor their biological mothers will have received perinatal cares and that they also will not have been administered the usual immunizations as in our country, or they may have received others. These data should alert the pediatrician. The use of complementary tests protocol is useful to adequately screen the risk in the initial evaluation. © 2018, Ediciones Ergon SA. All rights reserved.

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