Cross-infection in Children's Wards: Report to the British Paediatric Association

Abstract

The term cross-infection is here used to denote any infection acquired by a patient in the hospital environment. Clinically, it is an infection arising during the course of another illness for which the patient was originally admitted to hospital, and may attack the respiratory tract, gastro-intestinal tract, wound, skin, or mucous membrane, or be manifested as one of the specific fevers.