NBME 23 Answers : Block 2 : #34 = A 35-year-old woman comes to the physician because ...

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Referring to NRTIs and NNRTIs as mainstay of treatment

Mainstay: efavirenz (NNRTI), tenofovir (NRTI), and emtricitabine (NRTI)

ususmle I guess he is asking about integrate,,,,, where his should be integrated into host dna to get replicated .. triple therapy includes. 2drugs NRTIs and other one is integrate +

whoissaad @ususmle NRTIs would still inhibit DNA synthesis since they mess with the reverse transcriptase which is needed to make viral DNA. +2

thotcandy @ususmle HIV triple therapy is 2 NRTIs/NNRTIs + 1 protease inhibitor. Plus, if her CD4+ cunt is already 60/mm, that shit is well integrated in her CD4 cells already, right? +1

brotherimodu I was confused because isn't HIV an RNA virus? +

focus @brotherimodu yes and therefore it uses a reverse transcriptase +