Gynecologic infections seen in cervical smears in Kuwait

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01 January 2010

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doi: 10.1159/000324966


Abstract

Objective: To study the different gynecologic infections seen in cervical smears in Kuwait.

Study design: Over a 6-year period (2002-2007), a total of 42,294 cervical smears were studied in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait. Conventional and ThinPrep (Cytyc Corp. Boxborough, Massachusetts) smears were first screened by cytotechnicians and finally reported by cytopathologists, Smears showing inflammation were analyzed with reference to Kuwaiti women.

Results: Of the 41,748 (98.7%) patients with satisfactory smears, inflammatory changes were observed in 17, 593 (42.1%). Specific infection was identified in 2,679 (15.2%) cases, of which 60.8% were Kuwaitis. The infections seen were Candida sp (73.8%), Trichomonsa vaginalis (11.9%), human papillomavirus (HPV99) (8.2%), Actinomyces-like organisms (3.4%), Chlamydia trachomatis (2.2%) and herpes simplex virus (0.5%). No significant difference was found in the proportion of infectious agents among Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti women except marginally higher T vaginalis (10.9% vs 13.4%, p = 0.05) among non-Kuwaitis. Candida sp was the most detectable infectious agent in both Kuwaiti (74.6%) and non-Kuwaiti women (72.4%). Chi2 for trend revealed an increasing proportion of smears from Kuwaiti women found with specific infections (p = 0.049) as compared to those of non-Kuwaitis over the years.

Conclusion: The prevalence of infections identified on cervical smears was found to be almost similar in Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti women except for T vaginalis, which was higher among non-Kuwaitis as compared to Kuwaitis (10.9% vs. 13.4%, p = 0.051). The Candida sp was the most detectable infectious agent, 74.6% in Kuwaiti and 72.4% in non-Kuwaiti women, followed by T vaginalis, the second and HPV being the third.


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