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How does HIV become resistant to an analogs action of substituting for its respective nucleoside in DNA?
How does HIV become resistant to an analogs action of substituting for its respective nucleoside in DNA?
Drugs used for "anti-viral" HIV medication often include AZT, ddI, ddC, 3TC as part of the HAART regimen. These drugs are chemical phonies of the nucleosides that build DNA chains. If HIV has to hi-jack a cells machinery in order to replicate, how is it possible that HIV can mutate so to prevent the cell from substituting an analog in DNA synthesis? It is clear though, that these chemicals do in fact do a better job of what HIV is *said* to do- Kill cells.
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