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The HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir (ABT-538) nearly obliterated HIV in some patients who took the drug in combination with two standard AIDS therapies.
Moreover, animal studies show that ritonavir in combination with another protease inhibitor, saquinavir, overcomes pharmacologic barriers to that drug and packs an intense one-two punch against HIV.
Researcher Daniel Norbeck of Abbott Laboratories, which manufactures ritonavir, announced preliminary results of a clinical trial of ritonavir combination therapy at the 35th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 17-20, 1995, in San Francisco, California.
Trial …