Molecular epidemiology and socio-demographic risk factors of sexually transmitted infections among women in Lebanon

Table 1 Total number of STIs detected in 505 women

A
	Prevalence of STI’s pathogens
Pathogens	CT	NG	MG	MGI	MH	UU	UP	GV	CA	TV	HPV
CT	4	1	0	1	1	0	3	3	1	1	0
NG		1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
MG			1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
MGI				2	1	0	1	1	0	2	0
MH					19	2	14	16	3	3	5
UU						23	2	13	2	0	3
UP							175	103	18	3	17
GV								184	22	4	16
CA									41	1	2
TV										10	1
HPV											34
B
Frequency of pathogens coinfections
	CT	NG	MG	MGI	MH	UU	UP	GV	CA	TV	HPV
Monoinfection	0	0	0	0	0	7	46	48	7	3	6
Coinfection	4	1	1	2	19	16	129	136	34	7	28

Table 1A presents the total number of each pathogen and the concomitant presence of different pathogens. The number in bold (each column read vertically) indicates the total number of women positive for the each pathogen. Coinfection of pathogens were commonly observed (each raw read horizontally).
Table 1B, (each column read vertically), shows the total number of each pathogen when detected as a monoinfection and coinfection.
CT C.trachomatis, NG N.gonorrhoeae, MG M.genitalium, MGI M.girerdii, MH M.hominis, UU U.urealyticum, UP U.parvum, GV G.vaginalis, CA C.albicans, TV T.vaginalis

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