Which of the following drugs, chemotherapeutic agents against HIV, inhibits reverse transcriptase?

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Azidothymidine (also known as AZT or Zidovudine) is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) that targets and inhibits the activity of the viral reverse transcriptase enzyme, thus preventing the reverse transcription of viral RNA into DNA, which is necessary for the virus to replicate. Soluble CD4 is a protein that binds to the HIV envelope protein and blocks viral entry into host cells, but it does not directly inhibit reverse transcriptase. Alpha interferon and Ampligen are not chemotherapeutic agents against HIV, and they do not target reverse transcriptase.

Which of the Following Drugs, Chemotherapeutic Agents Against HIV, Inhibits