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