Prevalence of human herpes virus types 1-7 in the semen of men attending an infertility clinic and correlation with semen parameters

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2487-2494

  Neofytou, Eirini ^a   Sourvinos, George ^b   Asmarianaki, Maria ^a   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^b   Makrigiannakis, Antonios ^a  

^a Laboratory of Human Reproduction   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

herpes virus; Infection; infertility; leukocytospermia; PCR; semen

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA DETERMINATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

AZOOSPERMIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 7, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MASTURBATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMEN;

EID: 67349269090     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.074     Document Type: Article

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