"Madagascar" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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One of the Indian Ocean Islands off the southeast coast of Africa. Its capital is Antananarivo. It was formerly called the Malagasy Republic. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1500, its history has been tied predominantly to the French, becoming a French protectorate in 1882, a French colony in 1896, and a territory within the French union in 1946. The Malagasy Republic was established in the French Community in 1958 but it achieved independence in 1960. Its name was changed to Madagascar in 1975. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p714)
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D008270
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.520.500
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2018 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2019 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Madagascar" by people in Profiles.
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Household transmission of COVID-19 among the earliest cases in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2022 01; 16(1):48-55.
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Integrating Health Systems and Science to Respond to COVID-19 in a Model District of Rural Madagascar. Front Public Health. 2021; 9:654299.
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SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence follow-up in Malagasy blood donors during the 2020 COVID-19 Epidemic. EBioMedicine. 2021 Jun; 68:103419.
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Novel Foods and Sustainability as Means to Counteract Malnutrition in Madagascar. Molecules. 2021 Apr 08; 26(8).
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Limited specificity of commercially available SARS-CoV-2 IgG ELISAs in serum samples of African origin. Trop Med Int Health. 2021 06; 26(6):621-631.
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The COVID-19 epidemic in Madagascar: clinical description and laboratory results of the first wave, march-september 2020. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2021 07; 15(4):457-468.
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Reconciling model predictions with low reported cases of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Madagascar. Glob Health Action. 2020 12 31; 13(1):1816044.
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Scrutinizing the spread of COVID-19 in Madagascar. Infect Genet Evol. 2021 01; 87:104668.
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Monitoring for outbreak-associated excess mortality in an African city: Detection limits in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Feb; 103:338-342.
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GeneXpert for the diagnosis of COVID-19 in LMICs. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 12; 8(12):e1457-e1458.