OBJECTIVE To compare the occurrence of Trichomonas vaginalis as demonstrated by culture and by Papanicolaou (PAP) smears in a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic. SETTING The largest out-patient venereological clinic in Denmark. SUBJECT AND METHODS As the prevalence of trichomonal infestation has decreased considerable in recent years direct microscopy of vaginal wet mounts is no long...

Trichomoniasis is most common sexually transmitted disease caused by T. vaginalis. The clinical manifestation varies from severe manifestation to asymptomatic condition. However, the exact virulence markers led to varied symptomatology was not well clarified. The role of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) in the pathogenesis of many parasitic diseases has been reported. The present study reports the leukotr...

Trichomonas vaginalis infections in the male have received scant attention.Baumeister and Hollinger (1941), after an intensive search of world medical literature, discovered records of only 145 cases of infection in the male urethra by T. vaginalis. Liston and Lees (1940) reported that they could not find a single paper on the subject in any medical journal published in Great Britain, and Freed...

BACKGROUND Metronidazole, a 5-nitroimidazole derivative, is the main antitrichomonal agent of choice for treatment of trichomoniasis. Since 1962, some cases of treatment failure with metronidazole have been reported and recently drug resistance is now on the rise in the world. This study was aimed to determine current susceptibility of Iranian isolates of Trichomonas vaginalis to metronidazole....

Trichomonas vaginalis causes trichomoniasis, second most sexually transmitted disease. The genome sequence draft of T. vaginalis was published by The Institute of Genomic Research reveals an abnormally large genome size of 160 Mb. It was speculated that a significant portion of the proteome contains paralogous proteins. The present study was aimed at identification and analysis of the paralogou...

Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI), caused by the protozoan parasite, Trichomonas vaginalis. Female sex workers are intensely affected infection, since they have frequent direct physical contact. The current systematic review and meta-analysis represents global prevalence of T. vaginalis in female workers. Five databases (Science Direct, Scopus, PubMed, Web Science, Google...

Human genital trichomoniasis has. received a good deal of Attention in recent years, but there are still many aspects of this disease which need fuller investigation. This paper, based on work carried out at the London Hospital during the past 2i years, is offered as an aid in elucidating certain of the more important of these problems-namely, the incidence, mechanism of infection, cause of rel...

The indirect fluorescent antibody test was used to detect antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis in 200 antenatal patients. A total of 104 (52%) gave a positive reaction with antigen prepared from cultures of trichomonas isolated from seven of the patients. Antitrichomonal antibody was detected at a 1/4 dilution in 90% of patients with proven trichomoniasis, while the highest dilution at which ant...

background: the aim of this study was to identify the trichomonas vaginalis strains/haplotypes based on identifying their probable variations in asymptomatic patients referred to tabriz health centers, northwestern iran. methods: sampling was taken from 50-suspected women to t. vaginalis in northwestern iran. the obtained samples were smeared and cultured. fifty dna samples were extracted, ampl...

Vaginal trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, a flagellated protozoan. Diagnosis of T. vaginalis infection is mainly performed by wet mount microscopy, with a sensitivity ranging from 38% to 82%, compared to culture, still considered the gold standard. Commercial immunochromatographic tests for monoclonal-antibody-based detection have been introduce...