Antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis in semen and relationship with parameters of male fertility

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1408-1417

  Eggert Kruse, Waltraud ^a   Buhlinger Göpfarth, Nicola ^a   Rohr, Gerhard ^b   Probst, Stephan ^a   Aufenanger, Johannes ^b   Näher, Helmut ^c   Runnebaum, Benno ^a  

^a Women's Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Genital infection; Seminal infection markers; Sexually transmitted disease; Sperm mucus interaction

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; POSTCOITAL TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; SUBFERTILITY; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 0029788993     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019410     Document Type: Article

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