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Volume 20, Issue 4 (1-2015)                   Intern Med Today 2015, 20(4): 223-229 | Back to browse issues page


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Safayi delouyi Z., Valadkhani Z., Sohrabi M.. Analysis the Prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis in Women Clinics of Tehran City’s Referents by PCR. Intern Med Today 2015; 20 (4) :223-229
URL: http://imtj.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-2011-en.html
1- Microbiology Department, Basic Sciences Faculty, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran
2- Parasitology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran , valad.zarrin@gmail.com
3- Biology Department, Basic Sciences Faculty, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran
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  Aims: Trichomoniasis is the most common sexually-transmitted disease in the world. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis by PCR referred to the women clinics of Tehran City.

  Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was done on 140 women admitted to Tehran Loghman and Shahid Shoorideh clinics hospital from November 2013 to December 2014. Demographic data were collected by a questionnaire. Using 2 swabs, from the posterior fornix of the vagina, secretions were collected with a swab to examine in the vaginal TYI-S-33 culture and another for molecular detection placed in a tube containing 2ml of sterile saline and transferred to the laboratory. Data were analyzed by SPSS 11 and One-sample T test.

  Findings: Of 46 suspected patients with Trichomonas vaginalis infection, vaginal secretions of 11 (7.8%) patients and urine samples of 4 (2.8%) patients by PCR, vaginal secretions of 6 (4.2%) and urine sample of 1 (0.5%) were reported positive in culture. There was a significant correlation between education and husbands’ job and Trichomonas vaginalis infection (p<0.05). There was not a significant correlation between contraception and prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis (p>0.05).

  Conclusion: Employing new molecular methods based on PCR is recommended as a supplement or alternative to current methods for detection of Trichomonas vaginalis.

 

 

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Type of Study: Applicable | Subject: Basic Medical Science
Received: 2014/07/8 | Accepted: 2015/01/6 | Published: 2015/01/7

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