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