The Ethics and Research Committees at Hospital General “Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez” (HGMGG) approved this study, with reference number 12-75-2015. Recovered samples, used primarily for pathogen diagnosis of 28 women with trichomoniasis who attended the gynecology service of the HGMGG between 2015 and 2019, were analyzed [20 (link)]; thus, vaginal swab samples confirmed by microscopy with T. vaginalis were placed in sterile plastic tubes with 0.9% physiological saline solution and kept at −70 °C until DNA isolation.
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