Infection control campaign at evacuation centers in Miyagi prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 824-826

  Kanamori, Hajime ^a,b   Kunishima, Hiroyuki ^a   Tokuda, Koichi ^a   Kaku, Mitsuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; EARTHQUAKE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; EVACUATION CENTER; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; JAPAN; LETTER; MASK; MEASLES; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; REGISTERED NURSE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ROOM VENTILATION; SURVIVOR; TUBERCULOSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; REFUGEES;

EID: 79960720772     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661224     Document Type: Letter

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