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Abstract This study was carried out at clinical pathology department and Andrology unit of Assiut University Hospital in the period from January 1999 to July 2000. It includes 55 patients (inpatients and outpatients). Their ages ranged from 20 to 50 years. All patients complaining of either primary or secondary infertility (unable to get a child within 1.5 years with regular marital life and without a cause in the female partner). For each patient the following clinical data were fulfilled: 1- Duration of infertility (either primary or secondary). 2- History of genital infection, trauma or operations. The patients examined for exclusion of casses with absent or abdominal testis, varicosities, congenital anomalies. The following investigations were carried out: - Semen analysid. - Culture of the semen. Determination of the level of antisperm antibodies by ELISA. - Detection of interleulin -1B and interleukin-6 by ELISA technique. |