Chlamydias in ejaculate; the influence on the quality and morphology of sperms
Authors:
prof. MVDr. Zdeněk Věžník, DrSc. 1; prof. MUDr. Leopold Pospíšil, DrSc. 1; Ing. Drahomíra Švecová 1; MVDr. Atanaska Zajícová 1; doc. MUDr. Vít Unzeitig, CSc. 2
Authors‘ workplace:
Výzkumný ústav veterinárního lékařství, Brno
1; Gynekologicko-porodnická klinika LF MU a FN Brno
2
Published in:
Prakt Gyn 2005; 9(2): 6-9
Overview
Chlamydias in ejaculate; the influence on the quality and morphology of sperms. In the rich literature about genital chlamydiosis there is relatively few publications dedicated to the presence of chlamydias in ejaculates. Therefore the authors present the analysis of their own spermatologic monitoring in the set of 991 male ejaculates. For direct proof of chlamydias there had been used an immunofluorescent reaction using the Progen Biotechnik GmbH set. The results of spermatoanalyses arose from a short-term survivability test (120 min) with a determination of sperms motility, the speed of sperm mobility and determination of percentage of living sperms. To evaluate the morphologic examination of ejaculates there had been used a computer program „strict morphologic analysis of ejaculate – SASMO“. The presence of chlamydias was confirmed in 199 ejaculates (20,08 %). At the spermatologic examination of ejaculates with positive and negative finding of chlamydias the differences in relative values of individual criteria were detected. The ejaculates contamined with chlamydias showed the volume lower by 7%, the concentration lower by 8,3%, motility lower by 7,8%, speed of sperms mobility lower by 9,6%, the share of normally created sperms lower by 14,4%. The differences of the averages of normosperms of two compared groups were statistically highly significant (p = 0,01), at the sperm motility they were significant (p = 0,05).
Key words:
chlamydias – direct proof – male semen –spermatoanalysis
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