An automated smartphone-based diagnostic assay for point-of-care semen analysis.

ABSTRACT: Male infertility affects up to 12% of the world's male population and is linked to various environmental and medical conditions. Manual microscope-based testing and computer-assisted semen analysis (CASA) are the current standard methods to diagnose male infertility; however, these methods are labor-intensive, expensive, and laboratory-based. Cultural and socially dominated stigma against male infertility testing hinders a large number of men from getting tested for infertility, especially in resource-limited African countries. We describe the development and clinical testing of an automated smartphone-based semen analyzer designed for quantitative measurement of sperm concentration and motility for point-of-care male infertility screening. Using a total of 350 clinical semen specimens at

SUBMITTER: Kanakasabapathy MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5701517 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature