Chuck Has Been Treated for HIV for More Than 20

question 16

Multiple Choice

Chuck has been treated for HIV for more than 20 years,and although he sometimes struggles with side effects,he is doing pretty well.Because of the development of resistance,his doctors are changing some of his medications and suggest raltegravir,an integrase inhibitor.How does this drug act?

• A)It blocks entry of HIV into cells,which may keep the virus from reproducing.
• B)It slows the advancement of HIV infection by blocking the enzyme needed for viral replication.
• C)It inhibits an enzyme responsible for viral replication early in the viral life cycle.
• D)It blocks a co-receptor required for HIV entry into human cells.

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Definitions:

Perfect Complements

Goods that are consumed together in fixed proportions to fulfill a specific utility.

Convex Preferences

A set of consumer preferences that exhibit a specific property where mixtures of goods are preferred over singular extremes, displaying a curve outward towards the origin on a utility graph.

Weakly Convex

Describes a curve or set in geometry and mathematical functions that bulges outward less sharply than a perfectly convex shape, often applied in optimization problems.

Convex Preferences

A representation in economics of a consumer preference structure where a mix or combination of two goods is preferred over either of the two goods alone, indicating a desire for diversification.