AIDS treatment-Drug cocktail

Why is the AIDS treatment frequently done with the drug cocktail?

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The treatment of AIDS is frequently done with one or more anti-retroviral drugs of dissimilar groups, for illustration, a protease inhibitor plus a reverse transcriptase inhibitor in attempt to approach in one single time two or more stages of HIV life cycle. Besides that, the elevated mutation rate of the virus might make the treatment unproductive and for this reason the use of the drug cocktail provides physicians to select other dissimilar drug combinations to escape viral resistance.

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