zidovudine

Examples

• All

• Patients receiving zidovudine experienced improved health outcomes compared to those not treated with the drug.

• Thus, pregnancy with HIV infection is an important indication for the use of zidovudine in the mother and her newborn baby.

  Academic text (2000)

• Only two mothers were known to have used zidovudine at any time.

  Academic text (1991)

• A beneficial effect of zidovudine alone is clearly apparent.

  Academic text (2000)

• The first drug to be approved for use in HIV infection was zidovudine, an inhibitor of reverse transcriptase developed over 30 years ago.

  Academic text (2000)

• By comparison with placebo-treated patients, those receiving zidovudine had fewer opportunistic infections and higher CD4 counts.

  Academic text (2000)

• After starting treatment with zidovudine, the risk of HIV transmission to the newborn was significantly reduced.

Synonyms

A

AZT

vszidovudine

• Specialized

17 6.1

A medicine that fights viruses and treats HIV

is the full generic medical name rather than an abbreviation

R

Retrovir

vszidovudine

• Specialized

1 7.0

A medicine used to treat HIV and AIDS

is the generic medical name used in clinical descriptions

Z

ZDV

vszidovudine

• Specialized

1 8.5

A medicine that fights viruses and is used to treat HIV infection

is the full medical name rather than a shortened code

Surface Forms

Etymology