Age-related disease pattern in infertile men: Increasing incidence of infections in older patients

Andrologia

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 209-217

  Rolf, C ^a   Kenkel, S ^a   Nieschlag, E ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Infection; Male infertility; Sperm count

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SIZE; VARICOCELE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; TESTIS;

EID: 0036046079     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2002.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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