BACKGROUND Trichomoniasis is a worldwide protozoan parasitic disease and metronidazole is a choice drug for its treatment. Because of disease importance in public health and its controversial ideas about the prevalence of drug resistance, this study was carried out. METHODS Fifty-two suspected vaginal samples were collected from 2006 to 2007 in Gynecology Maryam Hospital, Tehran, Iran. All is...

Trichomonas tenax is a flagellated protozoan commonly found in the human oral cavity but of unusual occurrence in pulmonary infections. We describe a case of a 67-year-old patient with glioblastoma who presented with severe pleurisy in the post-operative period while she was receiving high-dose corticotherapy. Several motile flagellated protozoa were identified in the pleural fluid. Trichomonas...

background: in spite of sufficient knowledge about phenotypic variation of trichomonas vaginalis , its genetic characteristics are poorly understood. we carried out a molecular epidemiology study in which in vitro metronidazole susceptibility of t. vaginalis isolates was considered. methods : this study was conducted on 862 women admitted to gynecology clinics in hamadan, west of iran, during 2...

trichomonas vaginalis infection is a sexually transmitted infection causing vaginitis and acute inflammatory disease of the genital mucosa. although metronidazole resistance in t. vaginalis is well documented, the only drug approved for the treatment of trichomoniasis in some countries is metronidazole. genus allium plants including garlic; shallot and onion have had an important medicinal role...

background: trichomoniasis is an extremely common sexually transmitted infection (sti) world­wide and is associated with important public health problems, including amplification of hiv transmission. this disease is in forms of symptomatic and asymptomatic in women and may de­pend on host as well as parasite variables. most of the studies reported from females are based on examination of vagina...

background: metronidazole, a 5-nitroimidazole derivative, is the main antitrich­omonal agent of  choice   for   treatment  of t richomoniasis . since 1962, s ome 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 me...