Molecular detection of potential sexually transmitted pathogens in semen and urine specimens of infertile and fertile males

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 283-286

  Abusarah, Eman A ^a   Awwad, Ziad M ^b   Charvalos, Ekatherina ^c   Shehabi, Asem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Jordan)

^c IASO   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Male infertility; Mycoplasma genitalium; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; PCR; Ureaplasma urealyticum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URINALYSIS; URINE;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; MALE INFERTILITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PCR; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ADULT; BACTERIURIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; JORDAN; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 84887609082     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.05.018     Document Type: Article

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