Tropical GI Disease

Tropical and parasitic GI diseases remain significant globally with growing importance in travel medicine and immigration health. The session covers amebiasis (Entamoeba histolytica) and liver abscess management, giardiasis treatment and resistant variants, helminth infections (hookworm, schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis), tropical sprue and environmental enteropathy, schistosomiasis hepatosplenic disease, and traveller's diarrhoea diagnosis and treatment. Discussion addresses Chagas disease GI manifestations (megacolon, megaesophagus), HIV-associated GI infections, immunosuppression and reactivation of latent parasitic infection, the role of GeneXpert and PCR multiplex panels in tropical GI, and the integration of tropical GI in temperate-zone clinics serving immigrant populations.