# Correction: Chronic scrotal content pain and viral orchiepididymitis: an overlooked hypothesis linking infection and Wallerian degeneration

**Authors:** Thiago A. Teixeira, Eduardo Zinoni Pato, Maria Christina W. Avellar, Raul Sanchez, Igor V. Coimbra, Joël R. Drevet, Jorge Hallak

PMC · DOI: 10.1186/s12610-026-00307-3 · Basic and Clinical Andrology · 2026-03-16

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** infection (MESH:D007239), atrophy (MESH:D001284), testicular damage (MESH:D013733), male infertility (MESH:D007248), hypogonadism (MESH:D007006), viral (MESH:D014777), Wallerian degeneration (MESH:D014855), mumps (MESH:D009107), fibrosis (MESH:D005355), Chronic scrotal content pain (MESH:D059350), primary testicular failure (OMIM:212112), inflammation (MESH:D007249), edema (MESH:D004487), Leydig cell dysfunction (MESH:D007984)
- **Chemicals:** testosterone (MESH:D013739), steroid hormone (MESH:D013256)
- **Species:** Human immunodeficiency virus (species) [taxon 12721], Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (no rank) [taxon 2697049], Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (no rank) [taxon 11676], Hepatitis B virus (no rank) [taxon 10407], Zika virus (no rank) [taxon 64320]

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