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Trichomonas vaginalis among multiethnic female UK students
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- Published on: 4 August 2011
- Published on: 4 August 2011In a recent letter Oakeshott 1 cited the lack of data on the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) in young women in the UK...Show More
In a recent letter Oakeshott 1 cited the lack of data on the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) in young women in the UK. In their own pilot study of 183 stored self -taken vaginal samples from multi-ethnic London female students in age group of 16-27, 2 (1.1%, 95% CI 0.1%-3.9%) were positive by an in house multiplex real-time PCR test. We in Macclesfield, UK, recently conducted a prospective pilot study to ga...
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