Bacteriospermia and its antimicrobial resistance in relation to boar sperm quality during short-term storage with or without antibiotics in a tropical environment

Table 1 Boar sperm characteristics and contaminants in 20 semen ejaculates

Variables	Means ± SD	Range
Semen volume (mL)	199.3 ± 84.5	62.0–404.0
Sperm motility (%)	72.3 ± 6.4	65.0–85.0
Sperm viability (%)	76.6 ± 8.7	56.0–88.0
Concentration (× 10⁶ sperm/mL)	345.2 ± 104.2	176.0–552.0
Total sperm per ejaculate (× 10⁹ sperm)	65.3 ± 27.7	22.4–124.3
pH	7.5 ± 0.3	7.0–8.0
Number of possible isolated colonies	5.6 ± 1.8	3.0–10.0
Total bacterial count (CFU/mL, log₁₀)	4.1 ± 0.7	2.7–5.2
Staphylococcus spp. count (CFU/mL, log₁₀)	3.3 ± 0.7	2.1–4.4
Proteus spp. count (CFU/mL, log₁₀)	3.0 ± 0.7	1.9–4.1

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