Definition of Cross infection

1. Noun. An infection that is acquired at a hospital or other healthcare facility.

Exact synonyms: Nonsocial Infection
Generic synonyms: Infection

Medical Definition of Cross infection

1. Infection transmitted between individuals infected with different pathogenic microorganisms. Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross Infection

cross country skiing
cross cover versions
cross crosslet
cross dressing
cross examination
cross examinations
cross examine
cross examined
cross examines
cross examining
cross flap
cross flory
cross hair
cross hybridization
cross infection (current term)
cross junction
cross junctions
cross linking
cross my heart
cross of Calvary
cross of Lorraine
cross of gold
cross off
cross one's arms
cross one's eyes
cross one's fingers
cross one's heart
cross oneself
cross out

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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