Fifty-seven percent of isolates in our study did not harbor TVV, suggesting that they might be of type 2. Our study might have been biased towards type 2; 63.6% were recovered from patients who were diagnosed by culture, after direct microscopy had been determined to be negative, suggesting that the parasite load in the patient was low. Conrad et al.  observed that type 1 parasites are often diagnosed by direct microscopy and suggested that this may be indicative of higher parasite load in type 1 which harbor TVVs. Additional studies, sampling a more diverse population and other regions in Kenya, are needed to confirm the population type and distribution of T. vaginalis in the country.