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Microbial flora in semen of asymptomatic infertile men.
- Source :
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Andrologia [Andrologia] 1984 May-Jun; Vol. 16 (3), pp. 269-75. - Publication Year :
- 1984
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Abstract
- A microbiological examination has been carried out in 116 patients with unexplained infertility and with asymptomatic bacteriospermia. Organisms more frequently isolated were Staphylococcus epidermidis (81.9%), non hemolytic streptococci (23.3%), diphtheroids (25%) and alpha-hemolytic streptococci (18.1%). None of the 103 patients were positive for C. trachomatis. Mycoplasmas were isolated in 56 (48.3%) of the 116 examined samples, U. urealyticum was present in 49 (42.2%), M. hominis in 3 (2.6%) and both species in 4 (3.5%) samples of examined fluids. Forty-one of the 56 mycoplasmas-positive patients have been treated with doxycycline therapy. The treatment improved motility and caused decrease of coiled tails in 12 cases. Conception occurred in 5 (26.3%) of the 19 treated patients whose cultures were negative for mycoplasmas. These 5 pregnancies occurred in the patients that had high titers (greater than 10(5) c.c.u./ml) of ureaplasmas and in which the antibiotic therapy was successful. No pregnancy was seen in the other 22 patients where treatment failed to eradicate mycoplasmas.
- Subjects :
- Chlamydia trachomatis isolation & purification
Doxycycline therapeutic use
Female
Humans
Infertility, Male complications
Male
Mycoplasma isolation & purification
Mycoplasma Infections complications
Mycoplasma Infections drug therapy
Pregnancy
Staphylococcus epidermidis isolation & purification
Streptococcus isolation & purification
Ureaplasma isolation & purification
Infertility, Male microbiology
Semen microbiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0303-4569
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Andrologia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6465553
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0272.1984.tb00282.x