Male Urethritis Caused by Trichomonas vaginalis
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چکیده
Trichomoniasis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. In women, Trichomonas vaginalis infection may present with vaginitis, cervicitis, or pelvic inflammatory disease, while in men it mainly asymptomatic causes mild and transient symptoms urethritis, epididymitis, prostatitis. past, little importance had been given to impact T. on men’s health, since was believed be a self-limited condition without sequelae. However, there growing evidence associated more serious disorders both women efforts diagnose treat this parasitic have increased. Recent advances testing for diseases using multiplex molecular assays increased diagnostic opportunities infection, especially men, as detection parasite by traditional methods much challenging. We describe an unusual case male urethritis caused observed our consultation Sexually Transmitted Infections.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venereology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2182-2395', '2182-2409']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29021/spdv.79.1.1279