Asymptomatic seminal infection of herpes simplex virus: Impact on male infertility

Journal of Biomedical Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-61

  Monavari, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Vaziri, Mostafa Salehi ^a   Khalili, Mohammadali ^b   Shamsi Shahrabadi, Mahmoud ^a   Keyvani, Hossein ^a   Mollaei, Hamidreza ^a   Fazlalipour, Mehdi ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Research and Clinical Centre for Infertility   (Iran)

Author keywords

Herpes simplex virus; Infertility; Real time PCR; Semen

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC SEMINAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 84887066664     PISSN: 16748301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7555/JBR.27.20110139     Document Type: Article

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