Cross Infection

"Cross Infection" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.

Descriptor ID	D003428
MeSH Number(s)	C01.539.248 C23.550.291.875.500
Concept/Terms	Cross Infection Cross Infection Health Care Associated Infections Infection, Cross Cross Infections Infections, Cross Health Care Associated Infection Healthcare Associated Infections Healthcare Associated Infection Infection, Healthcare Associated Infections, Healthcare Associated Infections, Hospital Infections, Hospital Hospital Infection Infection, Hospital Infections, Nosocomial Infection, Nosocomial Nosocomial Infection Nosocomial Infections Hospital Infections

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cross Infection".

Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Infection [C01.539]
Cross Infection [C01.539.248]
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms [C23]
Pathologic Processes [C23.550]
Disease Attributes [C23.550.291]
Iatrogenic Disease [C23.550.291.875]
Cross Infection [C23.550.291.875.500]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cross Infection".

Cross Infection
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated

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Bar chart showing 27 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2003	2	0	2
2007	2	0	2
2008	2	1	3
2009	1	0	1
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	0	1
2012	1	0	1
2013	1	0	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	2	1	3
2016	5	1	6
2018	1	0	1
2019	1	0	1
2020	2	1	3

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Frenette C, Sperlea D, German GJ, Afra K, Boswell J, Chang S, Goossens H, Grant J, Lefebvre MA, McGeer A, Mertz D, Science M, Versporten A, Thirion DJG. The 2017 global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in Canadian hospitals. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2020 07 11; 9(1):104.

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Abhyankar MM, Ma JZ, Scully KW, Nafziger AJ, Frisbee AL, Saleh MM, Madden GR, Hays AR, Poulter M, Petri WA. Immune Profiling To Predict Outcome of Clostridioides difficile Infection. mBio. 2020 05 26; 11(3).

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Jimenez A, Trepka MJ, Munoz-Price LS, Pekovic V, Ibrahimou B, Abbo LM, Martinez O, Sposato K, dePascale D, Perez-Cardona A, McElheny CL, Bachman WC, Fowler EL, Doi Y, Fennie K. Epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in hospitals of a large healthcare system in Miami, Florida from 2012 to 2016: Five years of experience with an internal registry. Am J Infect Control. 2020 11; 48(11):1341-1347.

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Bui LN, Swan JT, Perez KK, Johnson ML, Chen H, Colavecchia AC, Rizk E, Graviss EA. Impact of Chlorhexidine Bathing on Antimicrobial Utilization in Surgical Intensive Care Unit. J Surg Res. 2020 06; 250:161-171.

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Rojas D, Wendell D, Ferguson PhD TF, Robinson WT, Trepka MJ, Straif-Bourgeois SC. HIV-associated comorbidities as mediators of the association between people living with HIV and hospital-acquired infections. Am J Infect Control. 2019 12; 47(12):1500-1504.

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Croker C, Hathaway S, Marutani A, Hernandez M, Cadavid C, Rajagopalan S, Hwang B, Kim M. Outbreak of Hepatitis A Virus Infection Among Adult Patients of a Mental Hospital - Los Angeles County, 2017. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 07; 39(7):881.

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Bui LN, Swan JT, Shirkey BA, Olsen RJ, Long SW, Graviss EA. Chlorhexidine bathing and Clostridium difficile infection in a surgical intensive care unit. J Surg Res. 2018 08; 228:107-111.

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Swan JT, Ashton CM, Bui LN, Pham VP, Shirkey BA, Blackshear JE, Bersamin JB, Pomer RM, Johnson ML, Magtoto AD, Butler MO, Tran SK, Sanchez LR, Patel JG, Ochoa RA, Hai SA, Denison KI, Graviss EA, Wray NP. Effect of Chlorhexidine Bathing Every Other Day on Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Infections in the Surgical ICU: A Single-Center, Randomized Controlled Trial. Crit Care Med. 2016 Oct; 44(10):1822-32.

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Fukunaga BT, Sumida WK, Taira DA, Davis JW, Seto TB. Hospital-Acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Related to Medicare Antibiotic Prescriptions: A State-Level Analysis. Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2016 10; 75(10):303-309.

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Koo E, McNamara S, Lansing B, Olmsted RN, Rye RA, Fitzgerald T, Mody L. Making infection prevention education interactive can enhance knowledge and improve outcomes: Results from the Targeted Infection Prevention (TIP) Study. Am J Infect Control. 2016 11 01; 44(11):1241-1246.

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