Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on Reproduction

doi:10.12280/gjszjk.20220314

Abstract

Abstract:

In recent years, the severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has posed a threat to human health. Studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 has a potential effect on human fertility, and the effect on male fertility was much more than that on female fertility. Current researches have suggested that SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may not adversely affect fertility in humans. It is unclear whether SARS-CoV-2 infection can be transmitted sexually, vertically or from mother to child, and thus affect the next generation. It is necessary to explore the effects of SARS-CoV-2 and its vaccine on fertility from the perspectives of reproductive medicine and infectious diseases, and to discuss the possible sexual transmission, vertical transmission and mother-to-child transmission, so as to improve the understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and its vaccine.

Key words: SARS virus, Fertility, Disease transmission, infectious, Infectious disease transmission, vertical, Vaccines

YE Ling, MA Xue-ying, WANG Xiao-hui. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on Reproduction[J]. Journal of International Reproductive Health/Family Planning, 2022, 41(6): 482-486.

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