Abacavir

March 13, 2007
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Abacavir, is an antiretroviral drug. When a virus (such as HIV) tries to manufacture DNA from the viral RNA, it unknowingly incorporates abacavir instead of a natural component of DNA, guanosine, which stops the virus from reproducing.
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