Louse-borne typhus acquired in overcrowded, insanitary conditions in an old-fashioned hospital.
〈史〉医院热，斑疹伤寒（旧时医院中过分拥挤和不卫生而由虱子传染的斑疹伤寒）
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Tilton's log hut hospitals were found to be very conducive to the recovery of soldiers from hospital fever.
Joseph Lister's experiments with antiseptics revolutionised 19 th-century surgery, reducing deaths from ‘hospital fever’.
Palatine fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, camp fever, and ship fever are all names applied to typhus, an acute febrile disease transmitted to man by body lice.
About two weeks after I entered the hospital I took hospital fever and was delirious for two or three weeks.
Definition of hospital fever in US English:
hospital fever
noun
historical
Louse-borne typhus acquired in overcrowded, insanitary conditions in an old-fashioned hospital.
〈史〉医院热，斑疹伤寒（旧时医院中过分拥挤和不卫生而由虱子传染的斑疹伤寒）
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Joseph Lister's experiments with antiseptics revolutionised 19 th-century surgery, reducing deaths from ‘hospital fever’.
About two weeks after I entered the hospital I took hospital fever and was delirious for two or three weeks.
Palatine fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, camp fever, and ship fever are all names applied to typhus, an acute febrile disease transmitted to man by body lice.
Tilton's log hut hospitals were found to be very conducive to the recovery of soldiers from hospital fever.