"South America" 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 southern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending southward from the Colombia-Panama border.
| Descriptor ID |
D013020
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.757
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "South America" by people in Profiles.
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Geographically dispersed zoonotic tuberculosis in pre-contact South American human populations. Nat Commun. 2022 03 07; 13(1):1195.
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Home chemical and microbial transitions across urbanization. Nat Microbiol. 2020 01; 5(1):108-115.
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Relatives' Presence During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Glob Heart. 2017 12; 12(4):335-340.e1.
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Process-Based Species Pools Reveal the Hidden Signature of Biotic Interactions Amid the Influence of Temperature Filtering. Am Nat. 2016 Jan; 187(1):75-88.
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Population genetic structure of traditional populations in the Peruvian Central Andes and implications for South American population history. Hum Biol. 2014; 86(3):147-65.
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Associations between indicators of acculturation and tobacco dependence among Spanish-speaking Latino smokers. Addict Behav. 2012 Oct; 37(10):1101-8.
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Predation and patchiness in the tropical litter: do swarm-raiding army ants skim the cream or drain the bottle? J Anim Ecol. 2011 Jul; 80(4):818-23.
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Native South American genetic structure and prehistory inferred from hierarchical modeling of mtDNA. Mol Biol Evol. 2008 Mar; 25(3):478-86.
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Mitochondrial DNA and the peopling of South America. Hum Biol. 2007 Apr; 79(2):159-78.
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Spatial grain and the causes of regional diversity gradients in ants. Am Nat. 2003 Mar; 161(3):459-77.