SpermCheck® Fertility, an immunodiagnostic home test that detects normozoospermia and severe oligozoospermia

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 853-861

  Coppola, M A ^a   Klotz, K L ^b   Kim, K A ^c   Cho, H Y ^c   Kang, J ^c   Shetty, J ^b   Howards, S S ^b   Flickinger, C J ^b   Herr, J C ^b  

^a ContraVac Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Princeton BioMeditech Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytology; Home test; Instrumentation; Male fertility; Sperm count

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMACYTOMETRY; HOME DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LATERAL FLOW IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREDICTION; PRIVACY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMCHECK FERTILITY TEST; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

FERTILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 77950014053     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep413     Document Type: Article

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