Question

What is in the “drug cocktail” used to treat people with HIV?

Group of answer choices

antibodies to HIV

A combination of reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors

a protease inhibitor

a reverse transcriptase inhibitor (like AZT)

Answer 1

Option B-A combination of reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors

In Medicine 'Cocktail Drug' refers to the use of mixture of drugs which are administered together or one after another.So this includes a combination of several drugs which enables action of their combined effect .So that the drug will be more potent than that of using one of the drugs individually.

In 1995,Use of Cocktail Drug was introduced for the treatment of HIV,It is also called combination antiretroviral therapy.

So this Include use of a reverse transcriptase inhibitor (That Inhibit Reverse transcription or conversion of Viral RNA to Viral DNA,which is incorporated into Host DNA) & Protease Inhibitors ( This drugs inhibit the action of protease enzymes,which are need for Viral Replication)

**Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors-Examples:

1.zidovudine

2.Lamivudine

3.stavudine

Protease Inhibitors-Examples:

1.Indinavir

2.Lopinavir

3.atazanavir