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Agouron Protease Inhibitor Enters Triple Combination Trials

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 8th, 1996

Another of the new HIV protease inhibitors is being tested in a potent triple combination.

Nelfinavir mesylate (Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc.) is the latest entry in what is now a field of four protease inhibitors being tested in combination with nucleoside-analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitors.

Early studies of nelfinavir in combination with stavudine (d4T) in patients with CD4 counts of at least 200 cells/(mu)L and HIV RNA levels of at least 15,000 copies/ml show that the drug decreases HIV RNA by 1.7 to 2.4 log10 and increases CD4 counts by 105 to 133 cells/(mu)L after two months of treatment.

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