Detection and identification of bacterial DNA in semen

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1744-1756

  Kiessling, Ann A ^a,c   Desmarais, Bryan M ^a,c   Yin, Hui Zhong ^a   Loverde, Joseph ^a,c   Eyre, Robert C ^b,c  

^a Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation   (United States)

^b Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals   (United States)

^c HARVARD INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bacteria; GPAC; gram positive anaerobic cocci; leukocytospermia; male genital tract infection; male infertility; Semen; semen infection; sperm; vasectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FERTILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY; LACTOBACILLUS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MONOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VASECTOMY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 55149084372     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.083     Document Type: Article

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