Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An antiretroviral drug, C10H12N5O4, that is a nucleoside analog and inhibits replication of HIV by inhibiting reverse transcriptase.
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- noun A
nucleoside -analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor active againstHIV .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Among those who are on treatment today, the vast majority resides in sub-Saharan Africa, and they can only access a less expensive stavudine based first line regimen that we now know has numerous side effects and is no longer recommended by the World Health Organization for this reason.
Rahim Kanani: Sophie Delaunay of Doctors Without Borders USA (MSF) on Global Health Financing Rahim Kanani 2010
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Among those who are on treatment today, the vast majority resides in sub-Saharan Africa, and they can only access a less expensive stavudine based first line regimen that we now know has numerous side effects and is no longer recommended by the World Health Organization for this reason.
Rahim Kanani: Sophie Delaunay of Doctors Without Borders USA (MSF) on Global Health Financing Rahim Kanani 2010
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A distortion of the body-fat distribution in the arms, legs, breasts, face, and buttocks, lipodystrophy is a common complication of stavudine, one of the medications that was in her first-line cocktail.
The Lazarus Effect Shoumatoff, Alex 2007
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Cipla's Triomune, which combines lamivudine, stavudine and nevirapine in a single tablet, were carried out in compliance with required standards.
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Control Council to import five generic drugs that were not registered in South Africa in terms of section 21 of the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act. It was allowed to procure lamivudine, nevrapine, zidovudine, dinanosine and stavudine for clinical trial by two researchers.
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The cocktail consists of two 40-milligram tablets of stavudine, two
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Bristol-Myers Squibb holds the patent on stavudine under the brand name Zerit; GlaxoSmithKline of Britain developed lamivudine, also known as Heptovir; and Boehringer Ingelheim of Germany holds the rights to nevirapine under the name Viramune.
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Antiretroviral regimens for HIV-1 that included non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors NNRTIs, zidovudine, stavudine or didanosine were not permitted.
unknown title 2011
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Int J STD AIDS 17: 364-369; quizc 370. van Leth F, Phanuphak P, Ruxrungtham K, Baraldi E, Miller S, et al. (2004) Comparison of first-line antiretroviral therapy with regimens including nevirapine, efavirenz, or both drugs, plus stavudine and lamivudine: a randomised open-label trial, the
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kathryn M. Chu et al. 2010
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The majority of antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up antiretroviral treatment using a fixed dose first-line antiretroviral regimen containing stavudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kathryn M. Chu et al. 2010
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