Bacterial communities in semen from men of infertile couples: Metagenomic sequencing reveals relationships of seminal microbiota to semen quality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Weng, Shun Long ^a,b,c,d   Chiu, Chih Min ^a   Lin, Feng Mao ^a   Huang, Wei Chih ^a   Liang, Chao ^a   Yang, Ting ^a   Yang, Tzu Ling ^a   Liu, Chia Yu ^a   Wu, Wei Yun ^a   Chang, Yi An ^a,e   Chang, Tzu Hao ^f   Huang, Hsien Da ^a,g  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NURSING AND MANAGEMENT COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

^d MACKAY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

^e Health GeneTech Corporation   (Taiwan)

^f TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGGREGATIBACTER; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; CAMPYLOBACTER; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; GARDNERELLA; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LACTOBACILLUS; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PASTEURELLA; PEPTONIPHILUS; PREVOTELLA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADULT; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84908439922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110152     Document Type: Article

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