Association between the JC polyomavirus infection and male infertility

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Comar, Manola ^a   Zanotta, Nunzia ^b   Croci, Eleonora ^a   Murru, Immacolata ^b   Marci, Roberto ^c   Pancaldi, Cecilia ^c   Dolcet, Ornella ^b   Luppi, Stefania ^b   Martinelli, Monica ^b   Giolo, Elena ^b   Ricci, Giuseppe ^a   Tognon, Mauro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; BK VIRUS; CAPSID PROTEINS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; JC VIRUS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEMEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84865053251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042880     Document Type: Article

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