Trichomonas vaginalis vast BspA-like gene family: evidence for functional diversity from structural organisation and transcriptomics

Table 5 Patients antisera response to peptides derived from TvBspA625.

	T. vaginalis positive patients			T. vaginalis negative patients
	Female	Male	Total^a	Female	Male	Total^a
Positive ≥ 1 peptide	89	59	148* (88%)	3	7	10*(16%)
Negative to all peptides	15	6	21* (12%)	33	18	51* (84%)
Total	104	65	169	36	25	61
HIV positive	71	56	127** (75%)	15	18	33** (54%)
HIV positive & positive ≥ 1 peptide	62	53	115	0	4	4
HIV positive & negative all peptides	9	3	12	15	14	29
HIV negative	33	9	42** (25%)	21	7	28** (46%)
HIV negative & positive ≥ 1 peptide	27	6	33	3	3	6
HIV negative & negative all peptides	6	3	9	18	4	22

^aA total of 169 patients with sera positive for T. vaginalis total protein extracts were contrasted to 61 patients with sera negative for T. vaginalis total protein extracts. Fractions of respective samples are indicated (in %). The proportion of HIV positive sera from the same set of patients was also compared. Sets of values used for statistical test and calculation of respective % are indicated by * or **.

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