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Combivir

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Combivir
[kom′bivir]
trademark for a combination preparation of the nucleoside analogs zidovudine and lamivudine, used in treatment of HIV infection and AIDS.


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Vicriviroc: Schering-Plough and the ACTG stopped low-dose arms in their trials, and later Schering-Plough stopped its treatment-naive trial entirely, because the volunteers receiving vicriviroc plus Combivir were not controlling the virus as well as those in a comparison arm receiving efavirenz plus Combivir.
The first was Combivir, which is a combination of zidovudine (Retrovir, AZT) and lamivudine (Epivir, 3TC).
Using the newer, more sensitive assay, the researchers found that resistance was three times as frequent with nevirapine alone as with both Combivir and nevirapine.
 
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