"Papua New Guinea" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands, including New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and New Hanover in the Bismarck Archipelago; Bougainville and Buka in the northern Solomon Islands; the D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands; Woodlark (Murua) Island; and the Louisiade Archipelago. It became independent on September 16, 1975. Formerly, the southern part was the Australian Territory of Papua, and the northern part was the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea, administered by Australia. They were administratively merged in 1949 and named Papua and New Guinea, and renamed Papua New Guinea in 1971.
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D010219
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760.590.715
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Papua New Guinea" by people in Profiles.
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Two new species of microhylid frogs (Cophixalus, Oreophryne) from the Purari River Basin, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa. 2025 Mar 14; 5604(3):234-254.
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A new species of Lepidodactylus (Gekkonidae) from Misima Island, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa. 2025 Mar 07; 5601(2):368-376.
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A new species of treefrog (Litoria: Pelodryadidae) from the karstic South-fold Mountains of New Guinea. Zootaxa. 2024 Oct 02; 5514(6):559-576.
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Five new species of the pelodryadid genus Litoria Tschudi from the southern versant of Papua New Guinea's Central Cordillera, with observations on the diversification of reproductive strategies in Melanesian treefrogs. Zootaxa. 2023 Apr 05; 5263(2):151-190.
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Prevalence of chronic hepatitis B in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2020 Oct-Dec; 11(4):6-9.
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Mathematical modelling of the impact of expanding levels of malaria control interventions on Plasmodium vivax. Nat Commun. 2018 08 17; 9(1):3300.
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Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection dynamics: re-infections, recrudescences and relapses. Malar J. 2018 Apr 17; 17(1):170.
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Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 08; 125:29-39.
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Human immunodeficiency virus status disclosure and education for children and adolescents in Papua New Guinea. J Paediatr Child Health. 2018 07; 54(7):728-734.
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Pneumococcal responses are similar in Papua New Guinean children aged 3-5 years vaccinated in infancy with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with or without prior pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or without pneumococcal vaccination. PLoS One. 2017; 12(10):e0185877.