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J Clin Microbiol. 1990 May; 28(5): 962-964

Growth of Trichomonas vaginalis in commercial culture media.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Milwaukee 53201-0342.

ABSTRACT

There are only two commercially available, ready-to-use culture media which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical diagnosis of vaginal trichomoniasis: Kupferberg's STS and Diamond's medium (modified). Diamond's medium (Klaas modification), recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for the isolation of Trichomonas vaginalis, was compared in vitro to Kupferberg's (STS) medium. Growth studies using six fresh clinical isolates, all from different patients, showed that while generation time was about 6 h in both STS and Diamond's, the period of exponential growth was longer in Diamond's. More important, in STS there was a 4-h lag period during which the population significantly decreased prior to exponential growth. This did not occur in Diamond's medium. Three hundred organisms inoculated into Diamond's reached a population of over 10(5) organisms in 72 h. In STS, the same inoculum could multiply to only 6 x 10(3) organisms. The fact that there is a lag phase in STS which is not seen in Diamond's could explain why low numbers of T. vaginalis do not multiply in STS but do multiply and can be detected in Diamond's. We conclude that because Diamond's medium (modified) allows more prolific growth over a shorter period of time, it is more suitable than Kupferberg's (STS) for detecting T. vaginalis in patients with vaginitis.

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