67 Referred by Prof. Dr. Osman A. Atallah Professor of Pathology, Fac. Vet. Med., Zagazig University Prof. Dr. Magda M. Ali Professor of Poultry Diseases, Fac. Vet. Med., Cairo University Pathological studies on pigeon trichomoniasis with reference to the associated bacteria By Mohamed, I.E.*, Gehan, H. El-Sakkar* and **Magda, M.M. Moursi *Department of Pathology, Animal Health Research Institu...

women were excluded from the trial. We also planned to treat as many male consorts as possible with the same course of nitrimidazine regardless of whether they had trichomoniasis or not. The women were re-examined as soon as possible after their initial treatment and again after the first and second menstrual periods following therapy. Clinical impressions were ignored and the initial diagnosis...

Analysis of eight groups of data collected at varying intervals during a period of seven years showed fluctuations in the sensitivity of tests to diagnose trichomoniasis in women. The best results were obtained from fresh, correctly prepared Diamond's medium, Feinberg-Whittington's medium, and modified Squires and McFadzean's medium (which showed 82% to 94% relative sensitivity). Poor results w...

Trichomonas vaginalis is the etiologic agent of trichomoniasis, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the world. The diagnosis is based on wet mount preparation and direct microscopy on fixed and stained clinical specimens. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of different fixing and staining techniques used in the detection of T. vaginalis in urine. Th...

Trichomonas gallinae is a protozoan parasite that is well characterised as a cause of trichomonosis in columbid and raptor species world-wide. The parasite emerged as a novel infection of British passerines in 2005, leading to epidemic mortality associated with significant declines of breeding populations of greenfinches (Carduelis chloris) and chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs). We characterised ...

Adherence of trichomonads to host epithelial cells appears to be a critical step in the pathogenesis of trichomoniasis. We evaluated the effect of a panel of 10 monoclonal antibodies on attachment of [35S]methionine-radiolabeled Trichomonas vaginalis strains to HeLa cell monolayers. Of 10 monoclonal antibodies, 3 totally eliminated motility of PHS2J strain trichomonads and reduced their adheren...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to characterize genetically and to compare the most frequently occurring strains of Trichomonas vaginalis isolated from southern Iran. METHODS Totally, 150 vaginal swab and urine specimens were collected from symptomatic and asymptomatic women from May 2012 to Jun 2013. This study implemented a sensitive and reliable PCR-restriction fragment length polymorph...

The squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) has been proposed as a model for urogenital trichomoniasis in man, but has not been accepted as such because of the purported presence of naturally occurring vaginal trichomonads in this animal. The study published here shows that these are easily eradicated organisms of intestinal origin, which eliminates the potential confusion created by them. In additi...

There are only two commercially available, ready-to-use culture media which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical diagnosis of vaginal trichomoniasis: Kupferberg's STS and Diamond's medium (modified). Diamond's medium (Klaas modification), recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for the isolation of Trichomonas vaginalis, was compared in vitro to Kupferberg's (STS...

Although there is an extensive literature on the subject of trichomoniasis, reports on the serological investigation of Trichomonas vaginalis infections are scanty and the results inconclusive, the emphasis in serological work having been on bovine infections with Trichomonas foetus rather than on human infections with T. vaginalis. Riedmuller in 1932 (quoted by Trussell, 1947) tested the sera ...