Male genital tract chlamydial infection: Implications for pathology and infertility

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-189

  Cunningham, Kelly A ^a   Beagley, Kenneth W ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Male fertility; Male reproductive tract; Male sexual function; Prostate; Prostatis; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; VACCINE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CELL CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDIDYMITIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; ORCHITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATITIS; REINFECTION; SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; URETHRITIS;

BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 48749104564     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.067835     Document Type: Short Survey

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