Assessment in the diagnosis of male chronic genital tract infection

Medicina

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 331-334

  Santoianni, Jorge E ^a   De Paulis, Adriana N ^b   Cardoso, Estela M ^b   Gonzalez, Beatriz N ^b   Predari, Silvia C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bacteriospermia; Chronical bacterial prostatitis; Semen culture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATITIS; SPERM; URINE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATITIS; SEMEN; URINE;

EID: 0033656716     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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