Imported Skin Diseases

Professor William R. Faber, MD, PhD, Dermatovenereologist Studied Medicine at the?University of Leiden, thereafter medical officer in Uganda, and general practitioner in the Netherlands. Trained as a dermatovenereologist at the Binnengasthuis Amsterdam and thereafter consultant dermatologist at the Meander Medisch Centrum Amersfoort, and the Academic Medical Center (AMC) Amsterdam. At present Professor in Tropical Dermatology at the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Roderick J. Hay, DM FRCP FRCPATH, Professor Roderick Hay trained in dermatology at Guys Hospital, the St John's Institute of Dermatology, London and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been a consultant since 1979 working in St John's Hospital, Guys and St Thomas Hospitals, the Belfast Hospitals Trust and is currently based at Kings College Hospital.
He has been an honorary consultant to the Public Health Laboratory Service (HPA) and University College Hospital. He has also worked in the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA and in a number of other different countries overseas.
He chairs the International Foundation for Dermatology which provides a global network for skin health and has written books, scientific papers and chapters particularly on the subject of skin infection, nail disease, fungal infection, eczema and international health.
His clinical interests include general dermatology, infectious and tropical skin disease, fungal infections and related areas such as nail disorde.

Dr Bernard Naafs, MD PhD Dipl. TM&H Dermatovenereologist; Studied Medicine at the University of Utrecht, and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam, and trained as a dermatovenereologist at the Binnengasthuis, Amsterdam. His other appointments have?included: Head,?Clinical Research, All Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Centre (ALERT), Addis Ababa Ethiopia; Head, Leprosy Control Zimbabwe; Head OPD Department of Dermatology Dijkzigt Hospital Erasmus University Rotterdam;?and consultant dermatologist, IJsselmeerziekenhuizen Emmeloord/ Lelystad. At present he is a Consultant in Tropical Dermatology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands and visiting professor at the Regional Dermatology Training Centre (RDTC) Moshi Tanzania and at the Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima (ILSL) Bauru SP Brazil.

1. Introduction: Travellers, New Immigrants, Asylum Seekers
William Faber, Roderick Hay and Ben Naafs

2. Precautions and Protection
William Faber, Roderick Hay and Ben Naafs

3. Pigmentary Disorders in Black Skin
JPW van der Veen and Nieuweboer-Krobotova
4. Difference Between Pigmented and Non-pigmented Skin
Ben Naafs

5. Influence of the new Environment on the Skin
Sadhanna Badeloe and Henk Menke

6. Fungal Infections
Roderick Hay

7. Mycobacterial Infections
William Faber

8. Leprosy
Ben Naafs and William Faber

9. Buruli Ulcer
Douglas S Walsh, WM Meyers and F Portaels

10. Ulcerating Pyodermas
JE Zeegelaar

11. Rickettsioses
PA Kager and  H.G. Schipper

12. Viral Diseases
Rana Mays, Rachel A. Gordon, Saba Javed, Janice M. Wilson, Whitney J. LaPolla, Natalie Kjar and Stephen K. Tyring

13. Sexually Transmitted Infections
MA Waugh and Henry de Vries

14. Endemic Treponematoses
HJH Engelkens

15. American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Carolina Talhari, Jorge Augusto de Oliveira Guerra, Anette Chrusciak-Talhari, Paulo Roberto Lima Machado and Sinésio Talhari

16. Leishmaniasis: Old World
F Vega-Lopez

17. Onchocerciasis/Filariasis
Michele E.  Murdoch

18. Schistosomiasis
AM Polderman and Lisette van Lieshout

19. Tungiasis
Hermann Feldmeier and Jörg Heukelbach

20. Cutaneous Larva Migrans
J Heukelbach and Hermann Feldmeier

21. Myiasis
Roger Kapoor, Timothy A. McGraw and Dirk M. Elston

22. Persistent Insect Bites
CLM van Hees

23. Beetle Dermatitis
Martin Glatz abdP Schmid-Grendelmeier

24. Aquatic Skin Disorders
MTW Gaastra

25. Geographic Distribution
William Faber, Roderick Hay and Ben Naafs

26. Clinical Problems
William Faber, Roderick Hay and Ben Naafs

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