Herpes simplex virus infection of the uterine cervix - Relationship with a cervical factor?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 248-257

  Eggert Kruse, Waltraud ^a   Mildenberger Sandbrink, Barbara ^a   Schnitzler, Paul ^a   Rohr, Gerhard ^a   Strowitzki, Thomas ^a   Petzoldt, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical factor; Cervical mucus; Herpes simplex virus; Sperm mucus interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ADULT; CERVIX MUCUS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 0033954546     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00530-0     Document Type: Article

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