Decreased ovarian reserve in HIV-infected women

Pietro Santulli1, Diane de Villardi, Vanessa Gayet

  • 1aDepartment of Gynecology, Obstetrics II and Reproductive Medicine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire (GHU) Ouest, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Cochin bDepartment 'Development, Reproduction and Cancer', Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité cInstitut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité CNRS (UMR 8104) dDepartment of Histology, Embryology, and Biology of Reproduction, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire (GHU) Ouest, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Cochin eUniversité Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire (GHU) Ouest, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Cochin, Infectiologie, Paris, France. *Diane de Villardi and Pietro Santulli contributed equally to this work.

AIDS (London, England)
|March 31, 2016
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