Paper Title
The Effects of Sars-Cov-2 Infection on Male Fertility Comparative Study

Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has initiated a wave of research to help better understand the extent of possible effects on the population’s health. However, scientific data about the impact of infection on sperm parameters and the potential for male infertility is limited.The study carried out in the Citolab Laboratory in Targu Mures regarding the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on male fertility aimed to assess the changes in sperm quality regarding the number of viable spermatozoa in the semen of men infected with SARS-CoV-2, compared to the semen of a control group. We evaluated the effect of the virus on the quality of sperm in the ejaculate at the same time.The study was conducted during 2020-2022 on a sample of 152 normospermic males who were tested before and after the infection.The subjects, aged between 22 - 46 years old, did not suffer from other health conditions that could have interfered with sperm quality at the time of the study.We found that 20.10% of the subjects presented forms of mild, medium and severe oligospermia. This study is additional proof that theSARS-CoV-2 virus produces changes in semen quality and implicitly has an effect on the possibility of conceiving as a couple.Although it was previously reported that the presence of the virus in seminal cells has harmful effects on sperm quality (Omolaoye, Adeniji, Cardona Maya and du Plessis, 2021), future studies are needed to explore the evolution of these cells after healing and determine if there is a correlation between infection and infertility problems.Currently, we cannot conspicuously prove the harmful effects of the vaccine on sperm quality. Keywords - Pandemic, Male Fertility, SARS-CoV-2 Virus, Semen