Effect of Metronidazole on Trichomonas Vaginitis in an Isolated Female Population

THE purpose of this study is twofold: to investigate the short-term and long-term effects of metronidazole§ in an isolated female prison population in which the incidence of trichomonas infection had previously been discovered to be 70 per cent1; and if treatment with this substance proved to be universally effective and if these socially isolated patients gave no evidence of recurrence after a period of at least three months, to provide reasonably good indirect evidence that recurrence of the infection under ordinary circumstances is probably due to heterosexual contact. Thus, personal hygiene, cleanliness, socioeconomic status and possible infective sources, such . . .