The degree to which a patient exactly follows a prescribed treatment regimen. Poor adherence may negatively impact a drug's effectiveness.
Compliance is an alternate term.
A nitrogen-containing molecule that serves as a building block for proteins, including enzymes, muscles, and structural molecules. The human body uses twenty of the eighty amino acids found in nature. Antiviral is sometimes used as an alternate term. Assay A test. A test for measuring the amount of HIV and other viruses in the blood.