Bacterial risk and sperm cryopreservation

Andrologia

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 282-285

  Levy, R ^a   Grattard, F ^a   Maubon, I ^a   Ros, A ^a   Pozzetto, B ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Microbiological risk; Semen

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; RISK REDUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG THERAPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VASECTOMY;

EID: 6344252746     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2004.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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