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Although first line therapy for trichomoniasis in pregnant and nonpregnant women is a single 2 g dose of metronidazole patients with hiv infection treated with a seven day course of metronidazole . Vulvovaginal candidiasis 2015 std treatment guidelines uncomplicated vvc diagnostic considerations a diagnosis of candida vaginitis is suggested clinically by the presence of external dysuria and vulvar pruritus pain swelling and redness signs include vulvar edema fissures excoriations and thick curdy vaginal discharge. Trichomoniasis is the most prevalent nonviral sexually transmitted infection in the united states affecting an estimated 37 million persons health disparities persist in the epidemiology of t vaginalis infection in the united states 13 of black women are affected compared with 18 of non hispanic white women t vaginalis infection affects 11 of women aged 40 years 640 and . Keywords vaginal candidiasis trichomoniasis pregnant women cape verde objective to determine the frequency of candidiasis and trichomoniasis infections in pregnant women limitations the techniques of latex agglutination enzyme linked immunosorbent assay elisa and cultural tests were not used in this work. Prevalence of trichomoniasis there were very few cases of trichomoniasis in this study and they were found in the older age group of 31 35 years similar to other vaginal infections we did not find any trimester to be particularly suscepitible to t vaginalis infection table 2there was no significant difference in the prevalence of trichomoniasis among those who had taken antibiotics