amino acids – amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. DNA codes for amino acids. Three nucleotides (segments of the genetic code) make one amino acid. Amino acids are critical to life, and have many functions in the way your body works.
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genotype test – a test that looks at how the genetic structure of a sample of HIV and whether the virus has changed with drug resistant mutations.
monotherapy – using only one drug.
Hodgkins disease (HD) – a type of lymphoma (lymph cancer).
empirical treatment – treating an illness based on its symptoms to see if it gets better.