Friday, November 4, 2011

Trichomonas: Wreaking Havoc Since the Mesozoic


This is appropriate since I just posted about dinosaurs. I was going on Wikipedia to read about Trichomonas and this picture was in the article:


This is an artist's rendering of a Tyrannosaurs Rex with a trichomonas infection based on an actual finding of a jawbone with lesions suggestive of such an infection. In humans, Trichomonas vaginalis usually infects women through sexual transmission. It causes green, foul smelling discharge.


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