Effect of contaminated preprocessed semen on fertilization rate and embryo quality in assisted reproductive techniques

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-67

  Krissi, H ^a,c   Orvieto, R ^a   Ashkenazi, J ^a   Gilboa, Y ^a   Shalev, J ^a   Moscovitch, I ^a,b   Bar Hava, I ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Art; Contamination; Culture; Embryo Quality; Fertilization; Semen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTURBATION; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SPERM;

ADULT; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 1342305560     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09513590310001651821     Document Type: Article

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