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 126 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
1997	1	1	2
1998	1	0	1
2001	1	1	2
2002	3	1	4
2003	4	1	5
2004	2	1	3
2005	1	0	1
2006	1	1	2
2007	2	1	3
2008	1	0	1
2009	6	0	6
2010	4	3	7
2011	6	1	7
2012	3	1	4
2013	4	3	7
2014	8	3	11
2015	11	5	16
2016	2	2	4
2017	3	4	7
2018	2	1	3
2019	3	3	6
2020	9	5	14
2021	3	0	3
2022	3	0	3
2024	1	0	1
2025	2	0	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Cross Infection" by people in Profiles.

Singh HK, Ross B, Hannah J, Ting S, Teasdale C, Wang X, Quinn M, Calfee D, Simon M, Torres H, Acker K, Horowitz H, Wang T, Gunawardhana N, Golderg R, Salazar Y, Prasad N, Jagnatnarain N, Johnson C, Kuang D, Gouveia A, Furuya Y, Westervelt K, Saiman L. Hospital-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections within tertiary and community hospitals and implications for prevention. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2026 03; 47(3):236-243.

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Caroff DA, Dargin JM, Rieder L, Dhungana R, Kong Y, Saxena D, Stoller A, Stempek SB, Duncan RA. Implementation of a diagnostic algorithm to reduce CAUTI surveillance events. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2025 09; 46(9):938-940.

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Fischer J, Kleppel R, Mathew M, Gilmore M, Hegarty-Moore L, Maryanski M, Peters S, Smith K, Roncaioli S, Smith J, Gallagher MC, DelPilar-Morales E, Haessler S. Bad habits that stick: adhesive tape use practices and beliefs. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2025 02; 46(2):213-215.

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Stirrup O, Blackstone J, Mapp F, MacNeil A, Panca M, Holmes A, Machin N, Shin GY, Mahungu T, Saeed K, Saluja T, Taha Y, Mahida N, Pope C, Chawla A, Cutino-Moguel MT, Tamuri A, Williams R, Darby A, Robertson DL, Flaviani F, Nastouli E, Robson S, Smith D, Loose M, Laing K, Monahan I, Kele B, Haldenby S, George R, Bashton M, Witney AA, Byott M, Coll F, Chapman M, Peacock SJ, Hughes J, Nebbia G, Partridge DG, Parker M, Price JR, Peters C, Roy S, Snell LB, de Silva TI, Thomson E, Flowers P, Copas A, Breuer J. Effectiveness of rapid SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing in supporting infection control for hospital-onset COVID-19 infection: Multicentre, prospective study. Elife. 2022 Sep 13; 11.

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Giuliano KK, Baker D, Thakkar-Samtani M, Glick M, Restrepo MI, Scannapieco FA, Heaton LJ, Frantsve-Hawley J. Incidence, mortality, and cost trends in nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in medicaid beneficiaries, 2015-2019. Am J Infect Control. 2023 Feb; 51(2):227-230.

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Scannapieco FA, Giuliano KK, Baker D. Oral health status and the etiology and prevention of nonventilator hospital-associated pneumonia. Periodontol 2000. 2022 06; 89(1):51-58.

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Baker DL, Giuliano KK. Prevention practices for nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: A survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network (SRN). Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 03; 43(3):379-380.

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Rubin LG, Beachy J, Matz T, Balamohan A, Jendresky L, Zembera J, Annavajhala MK, Uhlemann AC. Prolonged outbreak of clonal, mupirocin-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal intensive care unit: association with personnel and a possible environmental reservoir, analyzed using whole genome sequencing. Am J Infect Control. 2022 06; 50(6):680-685.

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Munro SC, Baker D, Giuliano KK, Sullivan SC, Haber J, Jones BE, Crist MB, Nelson RE, Carey E, Lounsbury O, Lucatorto M, Miller R, Pauley B, Klompas M. Nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: A call to action. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 08; 42(8):991-996.

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Zubiri L, Rosovsky RP, Mooradian MJ, Piper-Vallillo AJ, Gainor JF, Sullivan RJ, Marte D, Boland GM, Gao X, Hochberg EP, Ryan DP, McEwen C, Mai M, Sharova T, Soumerai TE, Bardia A, Reynolds KL. Temporal Trends in Inpatient Oncology Census Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Rates of Nosocomial COVID-19 Among Patients with Cancer at a Large Academic Center. Oncologist. 2021 08; 26(8):e1427-e1433.

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