background and objectives: a new real- time pcr protocol for the detection of trichomonas vaginalis in pooled urine samples has been optimized and validated. materials and methods: the amplification protocol, targeting a 2kb repeated gene in the t. vaginalis genome, was optimized by varying pcr parameters. as a reference method, a real-time pcr protocol targeting the beta-tubulin gene (y. versl...

Introduction, materials, and methods The relation between sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and risk of HIV infection has been a subject of increasing interest. Hence, the present study was designed to estimate the incidence of diVerent STDs and frequency of HIV seropositivity among various STDs. It was conducted in the STD clinic of the department of dermatology and STD, JIPMER, Pondicherry...

It is a very special honour to give the second Harrison Lecture; and personally gratifying, though somewhat awesome, to follow that skilled clinician, scholar, and friend-Ambrose King. Colonel L. W. Harrison stands tall in the history of the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), as he did in life. After his outstanding services to the Armed Forces of Great Britain in World War I, he returned to...