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Antiretrovirals, Part II: focus on non-protease inhibitor antiretrovirals (NRTIs, NNRTIs, and fusion inhibitors).

Zapor MJ, Cozza KL, Wynn GH, Wortmann GW, Armstrong SC

Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.

The second in a series reviewing the HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs. This review summarizes the non-protease inhibitor antiretrovirals: nucleoside and nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), and cell membrane fusion inhibitors. In an overview format for primary care physicians and psychiatrists, this review presents the mechanism of action, side effects, toxicities, and drug interactions of these agents.

Published 19 November 2004 in Psychosomatics, 45(6): 524-35.
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