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. 2020 Mar 14:hcaa092. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcaa092
Limiting spread of COVID-19 from cruise ships - lessons to be learnt from Japan
Toyoaki Sawano
h1,h2,✉, Akihiko Ozaki
h3,h4, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales
h5, Tetsuya Tanimoto
h4, Ranjit Sah
h6
Toyoaki Sawano, MD
h1Department of Surgery, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
h2Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
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Akihiko Ozaki, MD
h3Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
h4
Medical Governance Research Institute, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
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Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales, MD, HonDSc
h5Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
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Tetsuya Tanimoto, MD
h4
Medical Governance Research Institute, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
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h1Department of Surgery, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
h2Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
h3Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
h4
Medical Governance Research Institute, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
h5Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
h6
National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Corresponding author: toyoakisawano@gmail.com
Received 2020 Mar 6; Revised 2020 Mar 9; Accepted 2020 Mar 11.
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