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Zalcitabine

//zalˈsɪt.ə.biːn// noun

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  1. 1
    A drug C₉H₁₃N₃O₃ which inhibits the replication of HIV and is formerly used in the treatment of AIDS, especially in combination with zidovudine. It is a synthetic analog of a pyrimidine nucleoside, acting as a reverse transcriptase inhibitor. countable, uncountable

    "Patients received 600 mg/day of ritonavir (Abbott Laboratories) for 14 days, after which were added 600 mg/day of zidovudine (Retrovir, Glaxo-Wellcome) and 6 mg/day of zalcitabine (Hivid, Roche) with treatment maintenance for 12 months."

  2. 2
    an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection; a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NARTI) wordnet

Etymology

From [Term?] + -citabine (“cytarabine or azacytidine derivative”).

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