highly active antiretroviral therapy
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highly active antiretroviral therapy
n. Abbr. HAART
The use of three or more antiretroviral drugs, typically including a combination of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and a protease inhibitor, to suppress HIV and prevent the development of treatment-resistant infection.
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Noun | 1. | highly active antiretroviral therapy - a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease NNRTI, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor - an antiviral drug used against HIV; binds directly to reverse transcriptase and prevents RNA conversion to DNA; often used in combination with other drugs NRTI, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor - an antiviral drug used against HIV; is incorporated into the DNA of the virus and stops the building process; results in incomplete DNA that cannot create a new virus; often used in combination with other drugs protease inhibitor, PI - an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs |
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