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