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New Microbes New Infect. 2018 Aug 22;26:37-41. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2018.08.012. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Male infertility: the intracellular bacterial hypothesis.

New microbes and new infections

M Stojanov, D Baud, G Greub, N Vulliemoz

Affiliations

  1. Materno-fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland?.
  2. Institute of Microbiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
  3. Fertility Medicine and Gynaecological Endocrinology Unit, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

PMID: 30224969 PMCID: PMC6138880 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2018.08.012

Abstract

Infertility is a disease that affects one in seven couples. As male infertility affects approximately 30% of these couples with an unknown cause in half the cases, it represents a major public health concern. The classic treatment of male infertility involves intrauterine insemination, with modest outcome, and

Keywords: Chlamydia; Mycoplasma; Ureaplasma; male infertility

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