By this means, twice as many cases of trichomonal urethritis can be found among these male contacts.

This sometimes leads to the mistaken treatment of trichomonal infection as cystitis.

There is a strange, as yet unexplained, difference between ethnic groups in their incidence of trichomonal infection.

Such changes, when caused by trichomonal infection, are rapidly reversible with anti-protozoal treatment.

Azanidazole is a nitroimidazole derivative used in gynecology for the treatment of trichomonal infections.

It is sometimes called trichomonas infection, trichomonal infection, or simply trich (say "trick").

This is just as well because trichomonal infection causes changes in the cells of the cervix which mimic those that precede cancerous changes.

There have also been well annotated studies of the transmission of trichomonal infection to the newborn offspring of mothers harbouring the organism, but not to the children of uninfected mothers.

The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for.

Male contacts of women with trichomonal vaginitis can be shown to harbour the organism in a certain proportion of cases, and this proportion can be increased if extra care and time is taken looking for the protozoon.

Less is known about the prevalence and risk of transmission of other STDs such as syphilis, herpes simplex virus, human papillomavirus, hepatitis B or C, trichomonal infection, or diseases transmitted through the fecal-oral route.

In many cases trichomonal infection is associated with other diseases, and while few would advocate the routine screening for other infection of all women found to be suffering from candidal infection, the finding of Trichomonas vaginalis is an absolute indication for further investigation to exclude other sexually transmitted disease.