Antiretroviral agents exert their effect by which means?

a. Boosting the body's T-cell production
b. Producing artificially acquired active immunity
c. Interfering with replication of the retrovirus
d. Lysing the DNA of the host cell


ANS: C
Antiretroviral agents act to stop more retroviruses from being made by interfering with the ability of a retrovirus to reproduce, or replicate.

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a. true b. false

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