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We sought to determine the prevalence and morbidity of<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>infection in Japanese men with and without urethritis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We examined urine specimens from 215 men with urethritis and 98 men without urethritis for the presence of urethral<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>by PCR assay.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Only four patients\u2014one with gonococcal urethritis, one with non-gonococcal chlamydial urethritis, one with non-gonococcal non-chlamydial urethritis and one without urethritis\u2014were positive for<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>. The prevalence of<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>was 1.4% in men with urethritis and 1.0% in men without urethritis. A possible relation between the appearance of<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>and clinical symptoms was not confirmed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>In the present study, the incidence of urethral<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>infection appears to be rare in Japanese men with or without urethritis, and<jats:italic>T. vaginalis<\/jats:italic>may be an uncommon pathogen in male urethritis in Japan.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/sextrans-2012-050702","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,25]],"date-time":"2013-01-25T02:30:23Z","timestamp":1359081023000},"page":"528-530","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Prevalence and morbidity of urethral<i>Trichomonas vaginalis<\/i>in Japanese men with or without urethritis"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"89","author":[{"given":"Kensaku","family":"Seike","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shin-Ichi","family":"Maeda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yasuaki","family":"Kubota","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Masayoshi","family":"Tamaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mitsuru","family":"Yasuda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Takashi","family":"Deguchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/00007435-199503000-00003"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.41.5.1850-1855.2003"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.3","first-page":"118","article-title":"Etiology of urethral discharge in West Africa: the role of Mycoplasma genitalium and Trichomonas vaginalis","volume":"79","author":"P\u00e9pin","year":"2001","journal-title":"Bull World Health Organ"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/sti.76.5.355"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/sti.79.2.151"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/376558"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.7","first-page":"25","article-title":"Studies on Trichomonas vaginalis in the urological field. 2.","volume":"60","author":"Kawamura","year":"1969","journal-title":"Nihon Hinyokika Gakkai Zasshi"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1442-2042.2006.01591.x"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/386309"},{"key":"2024051409562862000_89.6.528.10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00430-011-0205-2"}],"container-title":["Sexually Transmitted Infections"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/syndication.highwire.org\/content\/doi\/10.1136\/sextrans-2012-050702","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,14]],"date-time":"2024-05-14T16:57:07Z","timestamp":1715705827000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/sti.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/sextrans-2012-050702"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,24]]},"references-count":10,"journal-issue":{"issue":"6","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,8,16]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2013,9]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1136\/sextrans-2012-050702"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/sextrans-2012-050702","relation":{},"ISSN":["1368-4973","1472-3263"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1368-4973","type":"print"},{"value":"1472-3263","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,24]]}}}