Retrovir Capsules (Ziduvudine), 100 mg
date: label: date made
content: about 1989
label: date made
content: about 1987
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Wellcome Company
notes: label: Description
content: Azidothymidine - AZT - brought the first real hope for treatment. It prolonged some patients' lives by slowing replication of HIV. It was introduced in 1987 under the name Retrovir.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: North Carolina, Research Triangle Park
topic: label: Subject
content: Science
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0771.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0771.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0771
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: zidovudine, 100mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 2 in x 1 5/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 5.08 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 5 cm x 4.3 cm; 3 17/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 1 11/16 in