Testicular microbiome in infertile men

Introduction. The concept of microbiome is a collective term for many microorganisms, such as bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses, inhabiting various anatomical areas of the human body. The relevance of studying their quantitative and qualitative relationships is associated with the size of microbial populations, as well as the lack of awareness of the modern scientific community about the true role of most of them, including the connection between the microbiome diversity of male testicles and sperm with the presence of azoospermia and the development of idiopathic variants of infertility. The purpose: identification of the composition of the microbiome of testicular tissue in infertile men and determination of its clinical significance. Studying the influence of microbial populations of the urogenital tract of men on the development and course of diseases associated with infertility, such as azoospermia.