(in Polish) Neglected Tropical Disease – pathogens/parasites you can meet travelling abroad

The number of tourists traveling steadily increases, especially in Europe, more and more people are going on holiday to tropical, subtropical and other countries. This subject is to introduce and deepen the knowledge about human and zoonotic parasites belonging to the "Neglected Tropical Diseases" group, less known exotic diseases that we can meet while going on vacation to various parts of the world. The presented knowledge about the routes of infection and diagnosis of these diseases will allow selection of the appropriate prevention methods and enable safe travels to the tropics.

1. What are “Neglected Tropical Diseases”? Different classification, common problems

2. One mosquito bite and then: arboviral infections (Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, Japanese encephalitis, Jungle yellow fever and others)

3. One mosquito bite and then…more diseases: vector-borne nematodes and Lymphatic Filariasis

4. Under the skin, in eye, bladder and liver- Onchocerca and Schistosoma.

5. Intestinal protozoa (balantidiasis & giardiasis): what to do so that they not ruin our holidays?

6. Long Dracunculus nematode and very small tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis: why are they so terrifying?

7. About soil- transmitted helminthiases (STH)

8. What the snail has in the shell: story of food-borne trematodiases

9. Be aware of what you eat: Trichinosis, Anisakiasis, Gnathostomiasis

10. Babesiosis - a tick-borne disease not only in dogs - an avalanche of cases in people from the USA, Canada and China

11. Exotic and cosmopolitan vector-borne rod-like bacteria: (Bartonella bacilliformis, Bartonella quintana, Bartonella henselae and other bartonellae)

12. Tropical and subtropical trypanosomiasis from Africa and South America, Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi) and African trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma brucei)

13. Kala-azar and leishmaniasis from Africa and South America (Leishmania donovani, Leishmania braziliensis, Leishmania major)

14. Canoeing through the malarial regions of the world - malaria, the invasions of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum

15. Swim in fresh water or not? Pathogenic amoebas (Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba coli, and Naegleria fowleri)