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The same types of organisms associated with vaginal infections and abortion in cows sometimes are found in the semen of bulls. A majority of the sulfonamides tested on semen samples (7) markedly reduced bacterial growth at levels which also increased the livability of the spermatozoa. Whether or not this improvement in spermatozoan livability which accompanied bacteriological control was a phenomenon distinctly associated with the sulfonamide compounds was not established.
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