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Definition of Cross infection
1. Noun. An infection that is acquired at a hospital or other healthcare facility.
Medical Definition of Cross infection
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross Infection
Literary usage of Cross infection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Before the method of masking patients was introduced, and the cubicle alone was
employed, we had ten instances of cross infection with scarlet fever in ..."
2. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1915)
"During the first nineteen months, 38 cases were admitted with only one cross
infection. Then we had three outbreaks, causing in all 23 cases, but since May, ..."
3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"... but it is probable that, in the natural method of cross-infection, ... We have
no clue, however, to the manner in which the cross- infection by the ..."
4. Epidemiology and public health: a text and reference book for physicians by Victor Clarence Vaughan (1922)
"... 3.2 per cent suffered from cross infection, and the case fatality was 10 per
cent; while of 949 admissions with relatively good isolation facilities ..."
5. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"Where a race's principal host is sympatric with the principal hosts of other
races, there is usually a low or rare frequency of cross infection. ..."
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