UREAPLASMAS UREALYTICUM AND HUMAN INFERTILITY: EFFECT ON SPERMATOZOA MORPHOLOGY |
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| Authors: | NK DEBATA VIMLA VENKATESH RN MISRA YOGESH CHANDER VC OHRI RK SHARMA |
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| Affiliation: | *Associate Professor, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040;+Post Graduate Student, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040;#Reader, Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040;++Reader, Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040;**Commandant, 167 Military Hospital, C/o 56 APO |
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| Abstract: | Seminal fluids of 197 males with complaints of involuntary infertility were examined for spermatozoal counts, morphological changes in the spermatozoa and cultured for ureaplasmas and mycoplasmas. In 12, no spermatozoa were present, 29 had a count of less than one million and 156 had more than one million spermatozoa per mL of the seminal fluid. Various morphological changes were detected in the spermatozoa in some cases. U urealyticum and M hominis were grown in 43.15% and 16.75% in comparison to control figures of 15.9% and 11.4% respectively. There was no correlation between growth of ureaplasmas and the spermatozoal count. Among the morphological changes, presence of coiled tails, presence of a fuzzy coat around the tail and microcolonies were highly specific for culture positivity (98.2, 98.2 and 97.35% respectively) but of low sensitivity (55.2%, 14.1% and 8.2% respectively).KEY WORDS: Mycoplasma, Spermatozoa, Ureaplasma |
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| Keywords: | Mycoplasma Spermatozoa Ureaplasma |
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