WASHINGTON — Catching a life-threatening illness while lying in crispy-clean linens is one of the last things most people expect from a hospital stay.

But one in 25 patients have at least one hospital-associated infection, according to a survey of 183 hospitals released Wednesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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