• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    25 天前

    My memory is faulty, but I remember hearing that it’s not usually associated with vaginosis precisely because its route of infection is fecal-oral, so its presence in a young girl’s reproductive system is a big red flag.

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      24 天前

      seems less likely the more i try to find it, its possible the teacher said gonnorhea instead. because fecal-oral, and anal sex are the only ways, its going to be hard to infect someone through the urethra of men to a victim, since the infectious cysts only appears in the feces, giardia solely reproduces in the intestinal track. when i looked up gonnorhea and children, there was quite a few papers on it.

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        24 天前

        This was a proper parasitology class reviewing amebas. It’s possible it could’ve been a related organism, though, but the characteristic “eyes” on the parasite stuck with me with that sentence because I think she had it up on the projector.

        Now I’m curious about what exactly she said, I wish I could rewind time.