Semen quality and fertility of men employed in a south african lead acid battery plant

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 369-376

  Robins, Thomas G ^a   Bornman, M S ^b   Ehrlich, Rodney I ^c   Cantrell, Anthony C ^d,e   Pienaar, Elma ^b   Vallabh, Jawaherlal ^d   Miller, Shirley ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d National Centre for Occupational Health   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f Chemical Workers Industrial Union   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Battery workers; Infertility; Lead; Reproductive health; Semen; Sperm; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PROTOPORPHYRIN ZINC; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEAD; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMEN; SOUTH AFRICA; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030755677     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199710)32:4<369::AID-AJIM8>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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