Trichomonas vaginalis: prevalence in an urban indigenous population and validation of new assays

这种被称为毛滴虫的感染是世界上最常见的性传播感染（STI）。它是由寄生虫引起的，在弱势贫困社区中特别常见。诊断和治疗（现有现成的治疗方法）这种感染很重要，因为它与孕妇的早产有关，并增加了艾滋病毒/艾滋病病毒的传播。几十年来，这种诊断方法一直没有改变，直到最近出现了一种新的更灵敏的检测方法。我们已经将其应用于自我收集的样本，如进出卫生棉条或尿液。在澳大利亚，需要在土著居民和托雷斯海峡岛民社区等高危群体中证明这种新的诊断工具更好，因为其他性传播感染的发生率已经很高。这种寄生虫如何在人类中引起疾病的研究很少。我们计划测试这种新的诊断方法，并将其与高风险人群的传统测试进行比较，并最终研究寄生虫如何引起疾病。

The infection called trichomonas is the commonest sexually transmitted infection (STI) world-wide. It is caused by a parasite and is particularly common amongst disadvantaged, poor communities. It is important to diagnose and treat (readily available treatments exist) this infection because it is linked with early birth in pregnant women and increases the spread of HIV-AIDS virus. The diagnosis has not changed for decades until recently, when a new more sensitive test became available.Wehave adapted it to work on self-collected specimens such as in-out tampons or urines. Proof that this new diagnostic tool is better, is needed in Australia in high-risk groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities where other STIs have already been shown to be at high rates. How this parasite causes disease in humans is poorly studied. We plan to test this new diagnostic method and compare it to traditional tests in a high-risk population and to ultimately study how the parasite causes disease.