Fertility and Sterility
Volume 83, Issue 6 , Pages 1680-1686 , June 2005

Relationship between the duration of sexual abstinence and semen quality: analysis of 9,489 semen samples

  • Eliahu Levitas, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Eliahu Levitas, M.D., IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, P.O. Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel (FAX: 972-8-640-3057)
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  • Eitan Lunenfeld, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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  • Noemi Weiss, M.A.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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  • Michael Friger, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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  • Iris Har-Vardi, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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  • Arie Koifman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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  • Gad Potashnik, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Received 20 June 2004 ,Revised 13 December 2004 ,Accepted 13 December 2004.

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PII: S0015-0282(05)00540-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.12.045

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 83, Issue 6 , Pages 1680-1686 , June 2005

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