Acrosome reaction in Chlamydia-positive and negative patients

Andrologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 314-316

  Jungwirth, A ^a   Straberger, A ^a   Esterbauer, B ^a   Fink, K ^a   Schmeller, N ^a  

^a St Johanns Spital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Chlamydia trachomatis; Fluorescence technique; Infertility; STD

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASECTOMY;

ACROSOME REACTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERM COUNT; VASECTOMY;

EID: 0242361115     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2003.00583.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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