The phrase "a source of acute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that causes or contributes to a sharp or intense experience, often in a negative context.
Example: "The lack of sleep became a source of acute stress for her during the exam period."
Alternatives: "a cause of intense" or "a source of severe".
Divorce is still a source of acute social shame, and Pearl worries what to tell the children.
Despite the introduction of generous tax breaks on charitable donations in 2000 after fierce campaining by the sector, the fiscal environment in which voluntary organisations operate is still a source of acute frustration.
They would also prove a source of acute embarrassment to the F.B.I., which barely concealed its sense of institutional superiority when Aldrich Ames, a longtime Central Intelligence Agency operative, was uncovered as a spy for Russia seven years ago.
First was to get rid of an opposition leader whose presence in the political arena has been a source of acute discomfort for him since the days of the Orange Revolution.
A trial in Tashkent may have become the least uncomfortable option for the Uzbek authorities: Karimova is also embroiled in international corruption probes into bribery and money-laundering that have become a source of acute embarrassment to the family – and to the country as a whole.
The number of contenders is also a source of acute headaches for merchants as well.
These subclinical cases, which go unnoticed, may act as one of the reservoirs for persistence of this infection in the population and as a source of sporadic acute hepatitis E. A similar continual transmission of subclinical infection was the main reservoir of poliovirus in areas in which the disease was endemic.
Occupational lead exposure continues to be a source of both acute and chronic exposure, resulting in blood levels of 40 to 120 μg/dL among participants in case studies and small cohort studies reviewed by the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry [ 5].
Drugs are also a common source of acute gastrointestinal events.
The case has become a potential source of acute embarrassment to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon because it has cast an unflattering light on internal protections, put in place more than six years ago, that were theoretically devised to shield whistle-blowers, but in practice appear to discourage them.
PROBLEM: Nail guns are a common source of acute, and potentially serious, injury in residential construction.
