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A 20-year old female for complaints of vaginal itching, discharge, pain with intercourse and discomfo with urination. She has had 3 different sexual paners over the past 2 years. As pa of your workup, you do a wet mount of vaginal secretions and see a flagellated organism about the size of a white blood cell with “twitching motility” that makes you think of Trichomonas vaginalis. Which statement is false regarding Trichomonas?

AMen are most likely asymptomatic but efficient transmitters of this organism
BThe cyst form of the life cycle is the most common method of transmission
CSimultaneous treatment of the patient and her sexual contacts will decrease the chance of recurrences
DIn severe cases the regional mucosa may be red with petechial lesions and the cervix has been described as a "strawberry cervix"
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