A comprehensive review of the impact of COVID-19 on human reproductive biology, assisted reproduction care and pregnancy: a Canadian perspective

Table 1 Summary of studies investigating the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in semen samples

Study	Disease stage	No. of semen samples		Interval from diagnosis/ test sample	SARS CoV-2 (−) RT PCR samples	SARS CoV-2 (+) RT PCR samples
Song et al. [68]	Recovering man	12	1 Testes^a	N/A	100% (13/13)	0
Guo et al. [62]	Recent/recovering	23		Median 32 days	100% (23/23)	0
Pan et al. [42]	Recovering	34		Median 31 days	100% (34/34)	0
Kayaaslan et al. [69]	Hospitalized patients in acute stage	16		Median 1 day	100% (16/16)	0
Holtman et al. [61] Cohort study	16 recovered/2 acute phase of infection	18		8–54 days after absence of symptoms	100% (18/18)	0
Zhang et al. [70]	3 positive/7 recovering	10 expressed prostatic secretion		< 3 days after positive test, 1 day after SARS Cov-2 (−) test	100% 10/10	0
Li D et al. [71]	15 acute phase of infection + 23 recovered	38		Acute phase 6–11 days from symptoms onset, 2–3 days after clinical recovery	84% (32/38) (13/15 + 19/23)	16% (6/38) (4/15 + 2/23)

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