Relationships among seminal culture, seminal white blood cells, and the percentage of primary sperm abnormalities in bulls evaluated prior to the breeding season

Theriogenology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1197-1206

  Sprecher, D J ^a   Coe, P H ^a   Walker, R D ^b  

^a Dept Large Anim Clin Sci C ^*  (United States)

^b Anim Hlth Diagn Lab Coll V   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulls; Culture; Primary sperm abnormalities; Semen; White blood cells

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ANIMAL; ARCANOBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREEDING; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS SOMNUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASON; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; UREAPLASMA;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ANIMALIA; ARCANOBACTERIUM; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; GLANS; HAEMOPHILUS; HEMOPHILUS; HISTOPHILUS SOMNI; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIGENITALIUM; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA DIVERSUM;

EID: 0033063002     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)80022-3     Document Type: Article

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