Putting the brakes on drug-resistant HIV
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 05:56
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- HIV-1 protease inhibitors were added as a component of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the mid-1990s, and have played a key role in that treatment regimen ever since. However, the emergence of multidrug-resistant HIV strains requires the discovery and design of conceptually new therapeutics for the treatment of patients infected with multidrug-resistant HIV strains.