Protozoan diseases – a marginalized threat of modern civilization

Sarnowska Marta, Tarnowska Małgorzata, Leśków Anna, Wysocki Andrzej, Pieńkowski Marek, Rosińczuk Joanna. Protozoan diseases – a marginalized threat of modern civilization. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(8):1013-1019. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1413986 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5960 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/876908 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.08.2018. Revised: 18.08.2018. Accepted: 31.08.2018. PROTOZOAN DISEASES – A MARGINALIZED THREAT OF MODERN CIVILIZATION Marta Sarnowska 1, Małgorzata Tarnowska 2, Anna Leśków 2, Andrzej Wysocki 3, Marek Pieńkowski 3, Joanna Rosińczuk 2 1 Division of Econmics and Health Care Quality, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland; um.marta.sarnowska@gmail.com 2 Department of Nervous System Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland; anna.leskow@umed.wroc.pl; malgorzatatarnowskaa@gmail.com; joanna.rosinczuk@umed.wroc.pl 3 Preventive Medicine Military Centre in Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland; andwysocki@wp.pl; m.p@wp.eu ABSTRACT Globalization and the intensification of tourism in tropical and subtropical areas as well as journeys within the framework of military missions often cause the spread and persistence of infectious and parasitic diseases in areas where they previously have not been reported. Protozoan diseases may also be introduced along with imported, often illegally, exotic animals. Parasitic diseases transmitted from subtropical and tropical regions include protozoan gastrointestinal disorders, such as amoebiasis, balantidiasis and blood protozoan diseases such as malaria, babesiosis, trypanosomiasis, or protozoan diseases of the skin, e.g. leishmaniasis. The aim of the study is to draw attention to the problem of disregard for the risks caused by the development of tourism to tropical countries. One has to bear in mind that being infected with blood protozoan parasites is particularly important for public health because it permanently or temporarily excludes those infected as potential blood donors; this applies to trypanosoma, babesiosis and malaria infections. One should presume that the number of cases of parasitic blood diseases in Poland has increased significantly in comparison with previous years. It should also be emphasized that in connection with diagnostic difficulties in diseases caused by parasitic protozoa, it is possible that these diseases may fail to be diagnosed, thus resulting in an incorrect treatment or a lack thereof. This applies to Trypanosoma infections, babesiosis and malaria. Keywords: protozoan disease; Trypanosoma; babesiosi