Standardization and quality control of sperm concentration and sperm motility counts in semen analysis.

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Human Reproduction

• Publication date

  1986-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.HUMREP.A136409PMID 3558773
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No references are available for this paper.

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