ID Board Review/Travel and Tropical Medicine

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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[edit | edit source]

  • Pretravel preparation
  • Post-travel Illness
  • Immigrants, refugees, and adoptees
  • Travelers with specific needs

Protozoal Intestinal Infections[edit | edit source]

  • Balantidium coli
  • Blastocystis hominis
  • Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis
  • Cyclospora cayetanensis
  • Cystoisospora (Isospora) belli
  • Dientamoeba fragilis
  • Entamoeba histolytica (amebiasis)
  • Giardiasis

Microsporidiosis[edit | edit source]

  • Protozoal extraintestinal infections
  • Amebic meningoencephalitis
  • Babesiosis
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Malaria
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Trichomonas vaginalis
  • Trypanosomiasis (general)

Nematode Intestinal Infections[edit | edit source]

  • 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[edit | edit source]

  • 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)[edit | edit source]

  • Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese liver fluke)
  • Fasciolopsis buski (intestinal fluke)
  • Fasciola hepatica and gigantica (sheep liver fluke)
  • Paragonimus westermani (lung fluke)
  • Schistosomiasis (general)

Ectoparasitic Infections[edit | edit source]

  • Myiasis (human botfly or tumbu fly)
  • Pediculus humanus (body, head, and pubic lice)
  • Tick bites—identification and tick paralysis
  • Tungiasis (Tunga penetrans)
  • Bed bugs
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