Table 1.

Trichomonas vaginalis transcription-mediated amplification (TV TMA) result stratified for age and ethnicity

	Female (N=2020)			Male (N=1483)
TV TMA result	Positive N=72 (3.6%)	Negative N=1948 (96.4%)	Fisher's exact test p value	Positive N=21 (1.4%)	Negative N=1462 (98.6%)	Fisher's exact test p value
Age			0.041*			0.877
<20	9 (2.7%)	329 (97.3%)		2 (1.6%)	127 (98.4%)
21-24	19 (2.5%)	741 (97.5%)		5 (1.3%)	382 (98.7%)
25-29	17 (4.0%)	408 (96.0%)		4 (1.1%)	368 (98.9%)
30+	27 (5.4%)	470 (94.6%)		10 (1.7%)	585 (98.3%)
Ethnicity			<0.001			<0.001
White	12 (1.2%)	959 (98.8%)		1 (0.1%)	679 (99.9%)
Black Caribbean	40 (9.0%)	403 (91.0%)		16 (5.4%)	281 (94.6%)
Black African	3 (2.4%)	124 (97.6%)		0 (0.0%)	111 (100.0%)
Asian	2 (1.1%)	177 (98.9%)		2 (0.9%)	213 (99.1%)
Mixed/other†	15 (5.9%)	238 (94.1%)		2 (1.5%)	129 (98.5%)
Not specified	0 (0.0%)	47 (100.0%)		0 (0.0%)	49 (100.0%)

^*Significant at p<0.05.

^†Mixed white/black Caribbean or white/black African or mixed white/Asian or Middle Eastern.