A patient who has been taking indinavir (Crixivan) for a year has just been told that the organism is now resistant to this drug.The patient expresses worry to the nurse that this means the disease will now progress to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and death will soon follow.What is the nurse's best response?
A) "Your health care provider can change this drug to the intravenous form, which prevents viral replication even in HIV that has developed drug resistance."
B) "Although the HIV is now resistant to this drug, other antiretroviral drugs are likely to be effective in controlling your disease."
C) "The HIV easily becomes drug resistant. That is why the drug combinations are switched so often."
D) "That is a possibility because these drugs do not kill the virus. It is best to be prepared."
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