"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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| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Papua New Guinea" by people in Profiles.
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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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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.
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Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF assay in children with presumed pulmonary tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea. Paediatr Int Child Health. 2018 05; 38(2):97-105.
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Severe malnutrition in children in Papua New Guinea: effect of a multi-faceted intervention to improve quality of care and nutritional outcomes. Paediatr Int Child Health. 2017 Feb; 37(1):21-28.
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Antigenuria in healthy Papua New Guinean children with nasal Haemophilus influenzae type b carriage. Ann Trop Paediatr. 1993; 13(4):385-9.