00:02
A second very important
type of vaginosis
will be one that
will be protozoal.
00:07
If you will take a
look at the organism,
please, you would find that
this then has flagella.
00:13
And with that said,
if you do a pelvic exam and
you were to do a wet mount,
you would then find these organisms
that are moving side by side
or just moving in general.
00:23
So that's rather interesting because
that's also rather disturbing.
00:28
The fact that you've
picken up these organisms
or literally scraping these
organisms from the vagina
in which you'd find organism
that are moving around
the reside within
that female's vagina,
Trichomonas vaginalis
is my topic.
00:43
Infects the vagina and
the cervical mucosa,
purulent vaginal discharge,
organism identified
in wet mount, and
by that we mean its conspicuous
nature of having a flagella.
00:55
So far, we've looked at two
important causes of vaginosis.
00:59
Number one was
candida with fungal
and number two, we
have Trichomonas.
01:03
What we have left is bacterial,
which we'll get to in a minute.
01:08
The cervical mucosa,
remember please,
whenever the cervical
mucosa has been affected
then it will then
appear as being red.
01:16
If this is candidal infection,
you'd expect the cervical
area to also look fiery red.
01:22
Here, the description
with trichomonas,
the cervical or the cervix area
then appears being strawberry-like.
01:29
Actually only seen in
minority of cases,
but still note well,
the treatment here since we are a
protozoa will be metronidazole.