Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection-related to male and/or female infertility factors?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-82

  Eggert Kruse, Waltraud ^a   Reuland, Mirjam ^a,b   Johannsen, Wiebe ^a   Strowitzki, Thomas ^a   Schlehofer, Jörg R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

antisperm antibodies (ASA); cervical factor; cervical mucus (CM); Cytomegalovirus (CMV); infertility; semen quality; sexually transmitted diseases (STD); sperm function; sperm mucus interaction

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

BETA-GLOBINS; CERVIX UTERI; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA; FEMALE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEMEN; SPERM CAPACITATION;

EID: 57849089271     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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