TABLE 2.
Diagnosis of trichomoniasis in women, using urine as opposed to vaginal swab samples as clinical specimensa
| Result obtained by using:
|
No. of samples with pattern | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wet mount microscopy | Trichosel culture | PCR of:
|
||
| Swab sample | Urine sample | |||
| + | + | + | + | 1 |
| − | + | + | + | 5 |
| − | − | − | + | 5 |
| − | − | + | − | 4 |
| 1 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 15 |
a
Paired swab and urine samples were obtained from 202 women consecutively attending the STD clinic of the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The values in the bottom row are cumulative numbers of positive samples per test. +, positivity in the test concerned; −, negative result.