What Is A Drug Called Zidovudine

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Zidovudine (Retrovir, AZT)

What Is Zidovudine? Who Should Take Zidovudine? What About Drug Resistance? How Is Zidovudine Taken? What Are the Side Effects? How Does Zidovudine React With Other Drugs? What Is Zidovudine? Zidovudine (Retrovir) is a drug used for antiretroviral therapy (ART). It was first manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. It is manufactured by ViiV Healthcare. The patent on zidovudine expired in 2005 and several generic versions have been...

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tenofovir then zidovudine?

hi doctor, after prolonged use of atripla as the first line drug can a zidovudine based HAART be used as second line? then what the other 2 drugs should be along with zidovudine in that 2nd line HAART? ...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

Yes, Sometimes, if the HIV virus develops resistance to tenofovir it will mutate down a pathway that will preserve the activity of zidovudine (called the K65R mutation). Also, if there is no drug resistance then zidovudine would be able to work.The... Read more »

atripla and zidovudine

if somebody becomes resistant to atripla components would he necessarily become resistant to zidovudine as well? i hope not because in a paper i saw point mutations caused by 3 components of atripla are absolutely different from that caused by...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hello and thanks for posting.There is a potential for cross resistance among the components of treatment. This means that prolonged treatment failure of one NRTI regimen has the potential to cause significant cross resistant to other medications of... Read more »

Trizivir (abacavir + zidovudine + lamivudine)

if all of the molecules are from nrti group then how can be trizivir a recommended HAART? ...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hello and thanks for posting.Trizivir was once a commonly used 3 drug regimen. Because of previous clinical studies that showed relative under performance compared with contemporary three drug regimens, it's no longer recommended by current US... Read more »

Zidovudine alone given to baby

Good day doc. I am HIV positive, on Nevirapine and lamzid, last test CD4 count 836, viral load undetectable. Just had a baby on 30 Nov 2011 via C-Section. My baby is being given 5ml Zidovudine 6 hourly. My understanding is that Zidovudine should be...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Assuming you were taking those HIV meds during your pregnancy, then yes, zidovudine as a single HIV drug for 6 weeks after birth is appropriate to give as prophylaxis to your baby.... Read more »

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