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Letter
Trichomonas vaginalis among multiethnic female UK students
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In their study of HIV outpatient clinic attenders, Gatski and colleagues found a high rate of bacterial vaginosis (67%, 163/244) in HIV positive, mainly African American women infected with Trichomonas vaginalis (TV).1 We recently conducted a pilot study to test for TV in 183 stored self-taken vaginal samples from multiethnic female London students who took part in the prevention of pelvic infection chlamydia screening …
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Funding The POPI trial was funded by the BUPA Foundation. Chlamydia testing kits were provided by Gen-Probe Inc.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.