The review of imported visceral leishmaniosis in the Czech Republic.

Background: From the late 1950s through 2000, a total of 8 cases of imported visceral leishmaniosis (VL) were registered in the Czech republic.

Objectives: The authors were made to point to the issue of imported VL by the fact 3 cases of this disease (imported from East Africa, Croatia, and southern Italy) were reported in 1999, plus another one (again imported from Croatia) in 2000.

Methods: The case reports of 4 cases of imported VL are presented.

[Clinical picture and treatment of alveococcosis].

A brief account of the clinical picture and treatment of alveococcosis which is the most serious parasitic disease in Central Europe is presented. Early diagnosis, surgical intervention and long-term chemotherapy considerably improved the prognosis of the disease recently.

[Cysticercosis in the Czech Republic].

The authors report 10 cases of cysticercosis registered by the National Reference Laboratory for tissue helminthiasis. Six Czech citizens and four foreigners contracted the disease. Four of 6 Czech citizens were contaminated abroad.

Trachoma, an imported disease.

The authors review the incidence of trachoma in the Czech Republic during the last 20 years. Trachoma has become almost exclusively an imported disease. In 1989-1990 the authors treated 34 foreign nationals with imported trachoma at the Infectious Diseases Clinic in Prague.

[Acute hemorrhagic viral conjunctivitis].

Two cases of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis are described, in which the enterovirus Coxsackie 24 was found by serological examination to be the etiological agent. The virus was important from Nigeria. The patients suffered by the acute hemorrhagic keratoconjuntivitis with transient iritic irritation without the systemic symptoms.