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Article: Parasites can inhibit drug efficacy.
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- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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Parasites can inhibit drug efficacy
If you ignore the gut and its malabsorption or chronic inflammation, which can be caused by underlying infections, you will invariably shorten the duration of action of the antiretroviral cocktail, Kaiser says. That leads to having to change the drugs quicker and ultimately going through the short list of medications much faster than what you ordinarily need to do.
While clinicians often do not treat these parasites when they infect healthy people because they can clear up on their own, this often is not the case with HIV-infected people. People who are HIV-positive have a significantly diminished ability to clear ...