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Websites
- Fisher Scientific online catalog (October 2006) www1.fishersci.com/browse?cid=1328
- Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic: treatment and care. UNAIDS Joint United Nation Program on HIV/AIDS http://data.unaids.org/pub/globalreport/2006/2006_GR_ch07_en.pdf