NNRTIs reviewed

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In a Background Briefing for the JAMA HIV/AIDS Information Center, Dr. Dennis

Blakeslee reviews antiretrovirals in the non nucleoside class; a group to which

nevirapine (Viramune), efavirenz (Sustiva) and delavirdine

Glossary

nucleoside

A precursor to a building block of DNA or RNA. Nucleosides must be chemically changed into nucleotides before they can be used to make DNA or RNA. 

(Rescriptor) belong.

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