Value of detecting leukocytospermia in the diagnosis of genital tract infection in subfertile men

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 315-319

  Trum, Johannes W ^a   Mol, Ben W J ^a   Pannekoek, Yvonne ^a   Spanjaard, Lodewijk ^a   Wertheim, Paulien ^a   Bleker, Otto P ^a   Van Der Veen, Fulco ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial infections; Genital tract infection; Leukocytospermia; Semen analysis; STDs; Viral infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEMEN; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0032146468     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00163-0     Document Type: Article

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