Open AccessSperm cryopreservation: is there a significant risk of cross-contamination?
Author(s) -
Gary N. Clarke
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
human reproduction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446
H-Index - 226
eISSN - 1460-2350
pISSN - 0268-1161
DOI - 10.1093/humrep/14.12.2941
Subject(s) - cryopreservation , contamination , sperm , biology , andrology , gynecology , medicine , environmental science , genetics , ecology , embryo
liquid nitrogen contamination by microbes and cross-infectionincertainsituations,wefeltthat thepossibilityofcontaminationInterest in the subject of sperm cryopreservation has a long or cross-contamination during semen cryopreservation shouldhistory, with thousands of published articles in the scientic/ be taken seriously.medical literature. Clinical pregnancy rates using donor Traditionally, semen storage protocols have not involvedinsemination can now approach natural pregnancy rates (Clarke sterile techniques. In particular, lling of straws by the ‘dip
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