Table 3.

T. vaginalis a-actin IgG and IgG-subtype antibody levels in 171 benign prostate hyperplasia cases and the control group

	BPH cases	Control group	p a
T. vaginalis antibody serostatus. No. (%)	53 (31.0 %)	49 (28.7 %)	0.19
Mean ODa
Total IgGs	0.569	0.561	0.663
Median OD
Total IgGs	0.592	0.567
Mean OD
IgG1	0.086	0.088	0.758
IgG2	0.202	0.158	0.000a
IgG3	0.159	0.153	0.374
IgG4	0.113	0.112	0.936

^a optical density