Sperm viral infection and male infertility: Focus on HBV, HCV, HIV, HPV, HSV, HCMV, and AAV

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-29

  Garolla, Andrea ^a   Pizzol, Damiano ^a   Bertoldo, Alessandro ^a   Menegazzo, Massimo ^a   Barzon, Luisa ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ejaculate alteration; Male infertility; Sperm infection; Sperm parameters; Urogenital infections; Viral sexually transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DNA; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ABORTION; ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EJACULATE ALTERATION; MALE INFERTILITY; SPERM INFECTION; SPERM PARAMETERS; UROGENITAL INFECTIONS; VIRAL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HIV; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; RISK; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84887017783     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: 18727603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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