A 25-Year-Old Man Comes to the Office for Follow-Up

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Multiple Choice

A 25-year-old man comes to the office for follow-up.  He was diagnosed with HIV several weeks ago following a hospitalization for Pneumocystis pneumonia.  He has no other medical problems.  His HIV drug susceptibility report shows no evidence of resistance.  The patient's treatment regimen includes a drug that is structurally unrelated to nucleosides and is not phosphorylated intracellularly.  The drug acts within the cytoplasm of infected cells to inhibit the synthesis of viral DNA from the RNA template.  Which of the following agents was most likely used in this patient?

• A)Emtricitabine
• B)Enfuvirtide
• C)Nevirapine
• D)Ritonavir
• E)Zidovudine

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