ID Board Review/Travel and Tropical Medicine

While travel and tropical medicine are extremely broad topics in ID, they only account for approximately 5% of the ABIM ID Certification Exam. General Principles of Travel Medicine Pretravel preparation Post-travel Illness Immigrants, refugees, and adoptees Travelers with specific needs Protozoal Intestinal Infections Balantidium coli Blastocystis hominis Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis Cyclospora cayetanensis Cystoisospora (Isospora) belli Dientamoeba fragilis Entamoeba histolytica (amebiasis) Giardiasis Microsporidiosis Protozoal extraintestinal infections Amebic meningoencephalitis Babesiosis Leishmaniasis Malaria Toxoplasmosis Trichomonas vaginalis Trypanosomiasis (general) Nematode Intestinal Infections Anisakiasis Ascaris lumbricoides (ascariasis) Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) Hookworm Strongyloides stercoralis Trichuris trichiura (whipworm) Nematode extraintestinal infections Angiostrongylus cantonensis Bayliascariasis (raccoon roundworm) Cutaneous larva migrans (dog and cat hookworm) Filariasis Gnathostoma spinigerum Toxocariasis Trichinella spiralis (trichinellosis) Cestode Infections Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) Hymenolepis (dwarf tapeworm) Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid disease) Echinococcus multilocularis (alveolar disease) Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) Taenia solium (pork tapeworm; intestinal) Trematode Infections (flukes) Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese liver fluke) Fasciolopsis buski (intestinal fluke) Fasciola hepatica and gigantica (sheep liver fluke) Paragonimus westermani (lung fluke) Schistosomiasis (general) Ectoparasitic Infections Myiasis (human botfly or tumbu fly) Pediculus humanus (body, head, and pubic lice) Tick bites—identification and tick paralysis Tungiasis (Tunga penetrans) Bed bugs