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Published online 29 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070129-2
Corrected online: 30 January 2007

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Indonesia to tackle tuberculosis and dengue

Collaborative effort puts country on the clinical research map.

Indonesia is set to attack both dengue fever and tuberculosis, in a move that should both boost the country's profile in clinical research and tackle two devastating diseases.

A collaboration between the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases (NITD) and two Indonesian research centres was announced on 25 January at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi.

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