Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection among Returnees to Japan from Wuhan, China, 2020
Yuzo Arima
1 , Satoshi Kutsuna
1, Tomoe Shimada, Motoi Suzuki, Tadaki Suzuki, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yuuki Tsuchihashi, Haruna Nakamura, Kaoru Matsumoto, Asuka Takeda, Keisuke Kadokura, Tetsuro Sato, Yuichiro Yahata, Noriko Nakajima, Minoru Tobiume, Ikuyo Takayama, Tsutomu Kageyama, Shinji Saito, Naganori Nao, Tamano Matsui, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Hideki Hasegawa, Kayoko Hayakawa, Shinya Tsuzuki, Yusuke Asai, Tetsuya Suzuki, Satoshi Ide, Keiji Nakamura, Yuki Moriyama, Noriko Kinoshita, Yutaro Akiyama, Yusuke Miyazato, Hidetoshi Nomoto, Takato Nakamoto, Masayuki Ota, Sho Saito, Masahiro Ishikane, Shinichiro Morioka, Kei Yamamoto, Mugen Ujiie, Mari Terada, Haruhito Sugiyama, Norihiro Kokudo, Norio Ohmagari, Makoto Ohnishi, Takaji Wakita, and the COVID-19 Response Team
Author affiliations: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (Y. Arima, T. Shimada, M. Suzuki, T. Suzuki, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Tsuchihashi, H. Nakamura, K. Matsumoto, A. Takeda, K. Kadokura, T. Sato, Y. Yahata, N. Nakajima, M. Tobiume, I. Takayama, T. Kageyama, S. Saito, N. Nao, T. Matsui, T. Sunagawa, H. Hasegawa, M. Ohnishi, T. Wakita); National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo (S. Kutsuna, K. Hayakawa, S. Tsuzuki, Y. Asai, T. Suzuki, S. Ide, K. Nakamura, Y. Moriyama, N. Kinoshita, Y. Akiyama, Y. Miyazato, H. Nomoto, T. Nakamoto, M. Ota, S. Saito, M. Ishikane, S. Morioka, K. Yamamoto, M. Ujiie, M. Terada, H. Sugiyama, N. Kokudo, N. Ohmagari)
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Figure. Results of testing 566 Japanese returnees from Wuhan, China, for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by real-time reverse transcription PCR, January–February 2020. *Two persons were sampled on day 3, when they provided informed consent.
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