... Pap smears. Trichomonas vaginalis is a parasitic protozoan that infects the urogenital tract of women. Study Design: DNA from archived Pap-stained smears was successfully amplified using the nested PCR to investigate if it could be used for accurate detection and retrospective epidemiological...

... for leishmanial DNA by nested PCR. Results: This study characterized 9 isolates of ML, with 7 cases identified as Leishmania major and 2 as Leishmania tropica . While 6 patients were found to be positive by the cytology technique, the nested PCR was positive for all of these samples. Conclusions: Presence...