Trichomoniasis among women with vaginal discharge in Benghazi City, Libya

From April 2000 to July 2001, clinical and wet-mount exami-nation were performed on 2450 women attending gynecologic department, EL-Keish Polyclinic, Benghazi City. The mean age was 34 +/- 7[inyears]. 328[13.4%] women were clinically diag-nosed as having viginatis. Sterile vaginal swab of the posterior fornix was stained by Giemsa and examined as wet smear for trichomoniasis infection. 29/2450, [1.2%] had T. vaginalis The infected women suffered vaginalis discharge [93.10%], burning [81.48%5], vulvar pruritis [79.39%], dyspareuria [40.47%], dysu-ria [21.43%] and strawberry appearance [75.86%]