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Validity of self-obtained vaginal specimens for diagnosis of trichomoniasis
J R Schwebke1, S C Morgan, G B Pinson
1Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-0006, USA. jschwebke@uabid.dom.uab.edu
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
A comparison of self- and clinician-collected vaginal specimens for the diagnosis of trichomoniasis was conducted. The sensitivities of culture methods using self- and clinician-collected specimens were 84.6 and 88.5%, respectively. There was no significant difference between the sensitivities of culture methods using self- and clinician-collected vaginal specimens for the diagnosis of trichomoniasis.