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What cells are typically affected first by a bacterial infection? atrophy? are my leydig's safe?

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Dr. Howard Shapiro answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine - Nephrology & Dialysis

See below: Bacterial infections may be local (tonsilitis, pneumonia) or systemic (septicemia). Leydig cells are at risk if you have a bacterial orchitis, but not by an infection elsewhere in the body, and would be an unusual site for the spread of bacterial infection from elsewhere in the body.

Answered 10/9/2014

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