This change will take effect December 7, 2015
Overview and Clinical Utility:
Effective December 7, 2015 PathGroup Labs will no longer be performing wet mount testing or culture for Trichomonas vaginalis In order to provide our clients with the most up to date infectious disease testing methods. According to the 2015 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines recently published by the CDC, culture is no longer considered the gold standard method for diagnosing T. vaginalis infection with the advent of molecular detection methods. Wet mount microscopic analysis suffers from extremely low sensitivity which can give rise to a high number of false negative results. PathGroup will continue to offer testing for Trichomonas vaginalis by the APTIMA assay.
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