Effect of bacterial infection on sperm quality and DNA fragmentation in subfertile men with Leukocytospermia

Table 1 Comparison of semen and sperm parameters between the healthy fertile men, bacteriospermic and non-bacteriospermic subfertile men

Parameters	Healthy Fertile men	Non-Bacteriospermic subfertile men	Bacteriospermic subfertile men
No.	35	112	60
Age (year)	36.14 ± 18.14	34.24 ± 21.12	35.70 ± 10.83
Volume (mL)	4.05 ± 0.87	4.19 ± 0.90	3.91 ± 1.49
Sperm concentration (10⁶/mL)	75.36 ± 34.12	33.04 ± 11.60 *	24.84 ± 15.93 *
Motility (%)	67.23 ± 20.65	31.71 ± 11.09 *	24.04 ± 11.82 ** #
Progressive motility (%)	39.33 ± 8.06	16.50 ± 7.85 *	11.30 ± 6.80 ** #
Leukocytospermia (10⁶/mL)	1.80 ± 1.90	4.12 ± 3.80 *	5.42 ± 5.49 ** #
DNA Fragmentation (%)	14.33 ± 10.97	23.50 ± 12.81	42.21 ± 19.31 * #
Viability (%)	85.03 ± 13.17	67.67 ± 16.62	55.91 ± 13.56 * #
Normal morphology (%)	6.03 ± 1.05	2.83 ± 1.32 *	1.75 ± 1.13** #

All data are represented as mean ± SEM
* The following values were compared: subfertile men vs healthy fertile men, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01
# Non-Bacteriospermic subfertile men vs Bacteriospermic subfertile men, #p < 0.05

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