| Literature DB >> 18706556 |
Päivi Joki-Korpela1, Niina Sahrakorpi, Mervi Halttunen, Heljä-Marja Surcel, Jorma Paavonen, Aila Tiitinen.
Abstract
To study the association between plasma antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis and male infertility, 90 men from infertile couples attending a University Hospital IVF clinic for IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and 190 healthy blood donors as control subjects were studied for IgG and IgA antibodies to C. trachomatis, and for the men from infertile couples seminal fluid analysis was performed according to the World Health Organization criteria. The prevalence of plasma IgG antibodies to C. trachomatis was higher among men from infertile couples than control men, and men with chlamydial antibodies had lower sperm counts than those without.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18706556 DOI： 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.06.051
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Fertil Steril ISSN： 0015-0282 Impact factor: 7.329