INCIDENCE OF TRICHOMONUS VAGINALIS INFECTION AFTER MENOPAUSE AGE OF WOMEN | ||
AL-TAQANI | ||
Article 1, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 16-20 | ||
Author | ||
Saba Fadhil Ali | ||
Abstract | ||
The aim of the present study is to determine the rate of the women who suffer from disease (Trichomoniasis) after the menopause age and if there is correlation between the rate of the disease and the age of the women. hundred A hundred vaginal discharge swabs are examined which are taken from hundred women of women attended to the Private Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, differed menopause age in order to detect of Trichomonas vaginalis (T.vaginalis) parasite. The samples are examined in the laboratory by using 0.5%methylene blue with distilled water (wet stained smear). The results showed that rate of parasite presence is (12%), in the group of tested women. And among the positive cases the rate of (50%) of the women who have been married over 10 years and the rate of (33.3%) of the women who have complained from itching and strawberry color in spot. Finally some symptoms, as itching and vaginal secretion are rated (25%). Statistical analysis of the results are showed that there was no correlation between the age and the rate of parasitic infection. | ||
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