Posts tagged CD4
HIV Boot Camp: NNRTIs

Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, or NNRTIs (pronounced like NRTIs, but with a stutter), are the next class of HIV drugs we will be covering.

What makes a NON-nucleoside as opposed to a regular old fashioned nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor?

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HIV Boot Camp: Background and Pathophysiology

Editor's note: To date, our most reader requested topic has been HIV. We've written a guest post at MedEd101 to cover the most NAPLEX-worthy testing points. But we thought we'd dig in a little further here. Over the next few weeks, we're posting a series called HIV Boot Camp. We'll shore up your HIV fundamentals. Then we'll breakdown each drug class piece by piece to highlight what you need to know. For convenience, we'll link each part of the series here. 

Background

HIV is a bastard. Let's just start right out with that

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