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cross-infection

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  • noun mutual infection between infected objects, animals, etc

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Examples

  • Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board is investigating the cross-infection, which is linked to three other confirmed cases.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • As soon as someone picks one out, they butcher it with bare hands right there on site, so there is plenty of opportunity for cross-infection to occur among different animals.

    Disease-Hunting Scientists: Jonathan Epstein and the search for SARS ewillett 2009

  • “It is therefore accepted that cross-infection occurred.”

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Oh dear Kate - send for the paramedics - you're obviously not at all well entering a fabric shop and not finding something to buy - hope it's not catching, mind you my DH will probably be sending me round for cross-infection if it is contageous!

    Journal Quilt Project - Week 16 katelnorth 2008

  • “It is therefore accepted that cross-infection occurred.”

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • “It is therefore accepted that cross-infection occurred.”

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Influenza-infected chickens raise the risk of cross-infection to pigs in the same area, scientists say.

    David Kirby: Mexican Lawmaker: Factory Farms Are "Breeding Grounds" of Swine Flu Pandemic 2009

  • According to Dr.D. Mehta, this is "an alarming problem, especially in the hospital environment with probability of cross-infection."

    Alison Rose Levy: Is Silver the Solution? 2008

  • He said appropriate action to deal with the outbreak would include temporary isolation wards, proper ventilation in wards to reduce cross-infection and allowing international health agencies like the World Health Organisation and the Centres for Disease

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • I still have no treatment for Linnea's system, so we have to hope very much there's no cross-infection going on.

    Thrush update ailbhe 2005

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