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Infection Control Campaign at Evacuation Centers in Miyagi Prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hajime Kanamori ,
Hiroyuki Kunishima ,
Koichi Tokuda  and
Mitsuo Kaku
Hajime Kanamori*
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kurihara, Japan
Hiroyuki Kunishima
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Koichi Tokuda
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Mitsuo Kaku
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
*
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 8 , August 2011 , pp. 824 - 826
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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