"Africa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The continent south of EUROPE, east of the ATLANTIC OCEAN and west of the INDIAN OCEAN.
| Descriptor ID |
D000349
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.058
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Africa" by people in Profiles.
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Women from afar: an observational study of demographic characteristics and mortality among foreign-born women living with HIV in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) in the United States 1994-2016. J Int AIDS Soc. 2020 05; 23(5):e25486.
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Time to Full Enteral Feeding for Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants Varies Markedly Among Hospitals Worldwide But May Not Be Associated With Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis: The NEOMUNE-NeoNutriNet Cohort Study. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2019 07; 43(5):658-667.
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Prediction of factor VIII inhibitor development in the SIPPET cohort by mutational analysis and factor VIII antigen measurement. J Thromb Haemost. 2018 04; 16(4):778-790.
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Sex and ancestry determine the free-running circadian period. J Sleep Res. 2017 10; 26(5):547-550.
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Global and regional effects of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with acute stroke in 32 countries (INTERSTROKE): a case-control study. Lancet. 2016 Aug 20; 388(10046):761-75.
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SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIA RETINITIS IN A TRAVELER TO AFRICA. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2016; 10(1):89-92.
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Responses to conflict, family loss and flight: posttraumatic stress disorder among unaccompanied refugee minors from Africa. Neuropsychiatr. 2014; 28(1):6-11.
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Reflections: neurology and the humanities: I knew that smile. Neurology. 2013 Feb 26; 80(9):e83.
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Psychopathology in African unaccompanied refugee minors in Austria. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2011 Jun; 42(3):307-19.
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African elephants have expectations about the locations of out-of-sight family members. Biol Lett. 2008 Feb 23; 4(1):34-6.