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
edit- Pretravel preparation
- Post-travel Illness
- Immigrants, refugees, and adoptees
- Travelers with specific needs
Protozoal Intestinal Infections
edit- Balantidium coli
- Blastocystis hominis
- Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis
- Cyclospora cayetanensis
- Cystoisospora (Isospora) belli
- Dientamoeba fragilis
- Entamoeba histolytica (amebiasis)
- Giardiasis
Microsporidiosis
edit- Protozoal extraintestinal infections
- Amebic meningoencephalitis
- Babesiosis
- Leishmaniasis
- Malaria
- Toxoplasmosis
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- Trypanosomiasis (general)
Nematode Intestinal Infections
edit- 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- 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- 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- Myiasis (human botfly or tumbu fly)
- Pediculus humanus (body, head, and pubic lice)
- Tick bites—identification and tick paralysis
- Tungiasis (Tunga penetrans)
- Bed bugs