Association between trichomoniasis and immune tolerance in women

ISBN-13: 9786202062916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str.

Patricia A. Pinheiro de Lemos; Waldemar Naves do Amaral; Marco Tulio A. Garcia-Zapata

Opis

Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infection that has been associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and cervical cancer in women. These diseases have been strictly correlated with immune tolerance. The studies aimed to establish the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis in pregnant, non-pregnant and HIV-positive women comparing different diagnostic techniques and establishing an association between T. vaginalis and immunodeficiency status. Wet mount microscopy, culture, Papanicolaou smear and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were the diagnostic techniques used to detect the parasite's presence in the cervico-vaginal samples. The higher frequencies of the parasite's infection in pregnant and in HIV-positive women observed in all the studies demonstrated the better susceptibility of T. vaginalis to cytological abnormalities, indicating also a risk factor for HIV infection.

O autorze

Patricia A. P. de Lemos is a biomedical scientist specialized in cytopathology, holds a master degree in parasitology from the Institute of Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Health Science from the faculty of medicine, both from Federal University of Goias, Brazil. She has an extensive experience working with diagnosis techniques - clinical laboratory