Cohort profile: the Swiss Mother and Child HIV Cohort Study (MoCHiV)

Paolo Paioni1, Murezi Capaul2, Anja Brunner3

  • 1Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

BMJ Open
|September 23, 2024
PubMed
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