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MeSH Heading: Cross Infection
Tree Number(s): C01.248; C23.550.291.875.500
Unique ID: D003428
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003428
Annotation: note INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL and INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT are also available
Scope Note: Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.
Entry Version: CROSS INFECT
Entry Term(s): Health Care Associated Infection; Health Care Associated Infections; Healthcare Associated Infections; Hospital Infections; Infection, Cross; Infections, Hospital; Infections, Nosocomial; Nosocomial Infections
See Also: Catheter-Related Infections; Community-Acquired Infections; Infection Control; Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient; Patient Isolation; Patient Isolators
Online Note: use CROSS INFECTION to search HOSPITAL INFECTIONS 1966-78
History Note: HOSPITAL INFECTIONS was see under CROSS INFECTION 1971-78, was see CROSS INFECTIONS 1963-70
Date Established: 1963/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0005342
Scope Note: Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.
Terms: Cross Infection Preferred Term
Term UI T009974
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1966); Health Care Associated Infection
Term UI T000870915
Date11/18/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Health Care Associated Infections
Term UI T000870916
Date11/18/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Healthcare Associated Infections
Term UI T000873304
Date01/08/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Infection, Cross
Term UI T009973
Date06/12/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992)

Concept UI: M0005343
Terms: Infections, Hospital Preferred Term
Term UI T009975
Date06/12/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Hospital Infections
Term UI T009976
Date02/04/1977
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Infections, Nosocomial
Term UI T009977
Date06/12/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Nosocomial Infections
Term UI T009978
Date01/07/1977
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

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