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Muthusamy S, Elangovan S. A Study on the Prevalence of Genital Trichomoniasis among Female Outpatients Attending Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic in a Tertiary Care Hospital. J Lab Physicians. 2017;9(1):16-19doi: 10.4103/0974-2727.187920.
Muthusamy, S., & Elangovan, S. (2017). A Study on the Prevalence of Genital Trichomoniasis among Female Outpatients Attending Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Journal of laboratory physicians, 9(1), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.187920
Muthusamy, Swapna, and Elangovan, Selvi. "A Study on the Prevalence of Genital Trichomoniasis among Female Outpatients Attending Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic in a Tertiary Care Hospital." Journal of laboratory physicians vol. 9,1 (2017): 16-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.187920
Muthusamy S, Elangovan S. A Study on the Prevalence of Genital Trichomoniasis among Female Outpatients Attending Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic in a Tertiary Care Hospital. J Lab Physicians. 2017 Jan-Mar;9(1):16-19. doi: 10.4103/0974-2727.187920. PMID: 28042211; PMCID: PMC5015492.
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J Lab Physicians. 2017 Jan-Mar;9(1):16-19. doi: 10.4103/0974-2727.187920.

A Study on the Prevalence of Genital Trichomoniasis among Female Outpatients Attending Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic in a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Journal of laboratory physicians

Swapna Muthusamy, Selvi Elangovan

Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, Sri Venkateshwaraa Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Ariyur, Puducherry, India.
  2. Department of Microbiology, Stanley Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

PMID: 28042211 PMCID: PMC5015492 DOI: 10.4103/0974-2727.187920

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Women with high-risk sexual behavior accounts for more than half of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic attendees. The prevalence of trichomoniasis is as low as 5% in the general population to as high as 60% in high-risk population. This infection can pave the way to the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus and other STIs, vice versa and is even associated with cancer.

OBJECTIVES: To identify, isolate and study the prevalence of

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Total number of subjects involved in the study was 130, among them 85 belonged to high-risk group and 45 belonged to low-risk group. Two high vaginal swabs were collected from each patient. Saline wet mount, Giemsa stain, and culture in modified cysteine peptone liver infusion maltose medium were performed. Results were tabulated and analyzed.

RESULTS: Saline wet mount was positive for trichomoniasis in seven individuals, Giemsa detected trichomoniasis in five patients, and culture was positive in eight patients. Of these eight culture positive cases, one was wet mount negative and four were Giemsa stain negative.

CONCLUSION: Culture is more sensitive than wet mount and Giemsa stain.

Keywords: Cysteine peptone liver infusion maltose medium; Trichomonas vaginalis; high-risk females

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