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Trichomonas vaginalis: in vitro survival in swimming pool water samples
Antonio Pereira-Neves1, Marlene Benchimol
1Universidade Santa Ursula, Rua Jornalista Orlando Dantas, 59, Botafogo CEP 22231-010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Experimental Parasitology
|October 24, 2007
Abstract:
In this work it is shown that Trichomonas vaginalis remains viable and infective in swimming pool water samples for several hours. After survival, trichomonad cytotoxicity was tested on primary cultures of epithelial cells. It demonstrates that the some trichomonad strains are able to survive in water pools and survival time is dependent on the degree of strain infectivity and also if it is a long term cultured or fresh isolate.

