A doctor was accidentally exposed to HIV by a needle stick injury while sampling HIV positive patient. A drug prescribed to him would be -

Needlestick injury is the most common cause of HIV infection among health care workers. The guidelines for post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV are A) For routine exposures a combination of two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors for 4 weeks. B) For high risk or complicated exposures a combination of two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors plus a protease inhibitor for 4 weeks. Inspite of the guidelines regimen B is given for all types of exposure Thus the treatment is obvious in this doctor. Also Remember Examples of Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors Zidovudine Lamivudine Stavudine Didanosine Zalcitabine A bacavir Protease inhibitors Saquinavir Indinavir Ritonavir NelfinavirAmprenavir