Epidemiology of Trichomoniasis

According to Kliegman (2011) incidence in trichomoniasis include
6 million
men and women are infected each year in United States.
600
hundred cases per 100,000 persons in the united states half of which are new
cases.
200 cases
per 100,000 sexually active women attending family planning clinic.

Prevalence

50% to
75% of commercial sex workers
50% of
women attending family planning clinic 7% to 32% of women attending STD Clinics
Demography
Female
partners are more often symptomatic
Andrea (2011) Stated that globally trichomoniasis
affects approximately 152million people as of 2011 (2.7%) than men (1.4%).
Sarvilla (2011) said that trichomoniasis facilitates
the spread of the HIV epidemic one theoretical calculation, concludes that if
infection with Tvaginalis increase the risk of HIV transmission by 90% in a
population with 25% prevalence of trichomoniasis approximately 20% of cases of
HIV would be attributable to trichomoniaisis.
American Social Health Association
(2006)

said that the estimate of trichomoniasis is about 7.4million.
References
American Social Health Association (2006)
Reduce Risk of Vaginalis /Trichomoniasis; Sixteenth Edition; by ASHA Printers,
New York.
Andrea, S. (2011) Detection of T.
Vaginalis in Symptomatic Women Parameters and Epidemiological Implication;
Edition; by Elsivier Printers, London UK.
Kliegman, N. (2011) Nelson Textbook of
Pediatrics Nineteenth Edition; Johnwiley and Sons Printers, New York.
Sarvilla, P. (2011) Topley and Wilson Microbiology
Infection; Fifth Six Edition; British Medical Association Printers, UK.
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