Determination of peroxidase positive cells in semen for the diagnosis of silent genital infections;Determinación de células peroxidasa positivas en líquido seminal: ¿Es un parámetro confiable para el diagnóstico de infección genital asintomática?

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 613-616

  Sánchez G, Raúl ^a   Villegas M , Juana ^a   Peña S , Patricio ^a   Miska, Werner ^b   Schill, Wolf Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infertility; Male; Semen; Urogenital diseases

Indexed keywords

PEROXIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME TESTS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PEROXIDASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMEN;

EID: 12344252582     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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