Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Bacterial infections have been identified as one of the causes of infertility, bacteria can cause immobilization and agglutination of spermatozoa. The aim of research was to detect the bacterial pathogens in seminal fluid culture from infertile men and determine the antibiotic sensitivity pattern in vitro. Seminal fluid samples were collected for culture and antibiotic sensitivity testing and were processed according to the standard techniques of microbiology. A total of 120 seminal fluid samples collected from human males admitted to the infertility centers in Najaf province, 74 (61.66%) of samples revealed positive significant growth of bacteria, while 46(38.33%) samples were with no growth. Eleven species of different bacterial organisms were isolated.