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RODRIGUEZ PENDAS, Bertha Victoria  e  SANTANA PEREZ, Felipe. Sexually transmitted diseases, quality of semen, and infertility. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2008, vol.19, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2953.

Aim of this paper is to insist on association between the sexually transmitted diseases increase and male infertility. We present most researches performed in this field emphasizing the role of these infections in infertility origin, and we describe also some of main semen infections causing decrease of male fertility, and its consequences on reproductive health of men. Aim of this review paper is to highlight the need of to include in male infertility study, the metabolic control of semen, where risk of infections prevalence associated to infertility provokes a failure reproduction with emotional and social consequences in couple

Palavras-chave : transmitted diseases; male infertility; assisted reproduction; semen.