Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals
Open Access
ISSN: 1948-5964
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 1948-5964
+44 1300 500008
Unit of Urology, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt
Research Article
The Effects of COVID-19 on Spermatogenesis
Author(s): Mostafa Kamel, Ahmed Abde Moniem, Mohammed Zarzour, Ade Kurkar and Hosny Behnsawy*
Objective: To observe changes in sperm parameters after 72 days of infection by COVID-19.
Methods: A total of 100 patients had been enrolled in the study by a criteria suggesting good semen analysis. Two
sets of semen analysis done, the first after 72 days of first positive swab for COVID-19 to show changes in the cycle
of spermatogenesis during infection, the other sample after 72 days from the first to compare it with the first sample.
Results: A total number 100 patients first sample show 2% of patient’s oligospermia, 36% of patient’s teratospermia.
The second sample shows 4% of patients’ teratospermia. by comparing the two samples there is a significant increase
in sperm concentration also a significant increase in motility (A+B), a highly significant increase in the normal forms
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DOI:
10.35248/1948-5964.21.s22.002