Abstract
This study aimed to estimate the percentage of bacterial infection among infertile males in Iraq with special reference to the predominant bacterial type.One hundred and five samples were collected from infertile patients as well as fertile individual, Seventy samples were collected from male individuals suffering from infertility either primary or secondary, as well as 35 samples were collected from fertile persons serve as a control group .All samples collected in this study were subjected to inoculation on proper media to investigate bacterio-spermia. Seminal plasma of liquefied samples were collected from all samples by centrifugation at 3000 rpm for 7min, plasma were stored frozen (-80) until use. Enzyme linked immune-sorbent assay technique ( Elisa) was used to detect Chlamydia tracumatis IgA antibody in seminal plasma. The result of this study revealed that 39% of all samples (fertile and infertile patients) has got infected with one or more of bacterial spices, Neisseria gonorrhea was isolated from 51.2% of all individuals followed by Staphylococcus aureus which collected from 36% of samples, E.coli were isolated from 12% of all individuals.
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41
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48
Recommended Citation
Zuhair, Aya; Hussein, Ghanim; and Al-bassam, Anwar N.
(2019)
"Bacterial Contents of Seminal Fluid of Iraqi Infertile Men,"
Al-Nisour Journal for Medical Sciences: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70492/2664-0554.1015