Talk:Trichomonas vaginalis

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Contents 1 Is 2 Genes 3 transmission 4 Motility 5 Proposed category merge

[edit] Is

Is there an herb which will rid of this problem without the use of the chemical metronidazole?

This isn't really the right place to ask, and very few herbs have been show to help any disease Nil Einne 16:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Genes

26k genes for a protozoa. Quite impressive... [1]. Someone else can add it Nil Einne 16:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

We'll see. The number for humans has been gradually coming down as the quality of the analysis improves. This is also true for most other eukaryotic genomes. Entamoeba 13:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] transmission

I was once told that trichomonas can only be transferred from man to woman and not the other way around. Is this true?

--198.204.97.2 13:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

NO! There is no way that men could get infected if this was true. What is true is that women seem more likely to get symptoms from an infection. Entamoeba 13:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Motility

Trichomonas vaginalis exhibits corkscrew motility not tumbling motility. (Listeria organisms show tumbling motility). The corkscrew motion is due to its flagella on one end and undulating membrane along its side that causes the organism to rotate about a longitudinal axis when in motion. Jennben4 06:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Nice catch - thanks for the correction. -- MarcoTolo 02:25, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed category merge