"acquire infection" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in medical or scientific contexts to describe the process of getting an infection from a pathogen. For example, "The patient acquired a bacterial infection after being exposed to contaminated food."
It is widely accepted that recrudescence of a persistent infection during pregnancy is the most common route of TPT and that the majority of persistently infected cattle acquire infection before birth [13].
Approximately 6 times as many ticks acquire infection when feeding on infected mice than when co-feeding with infected ticks.
Therefore each tick generation must acquire infection by feeding on infected hosts.
Transovarial transmission of B. burgdorferi is negligible, and I. scapularis ticks acquire infection by feeding on infected hosts as larvae or as nymphs.
Male ticks, allowed to acquire infection by feeding on an infected calf, were used for these studies because of their putative role in transmission of A. marginale [ 15, 16].
Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protozoan parasite with a wide range of intermediate hosts, including pigs and humans, who acquire infection through the ingestion of infective oocysts excreted by cats, tachyzoites in raw milk, or encysted bradyzoites in infected meat [ 18].
Humans become infected when they visit disease-endemic areas infested with rats and acquire infection by inhalation or by self-inoculating infected fleas or flea feces into skin.
Here we provide the first report that under controlled indoor conditions CWD-naïve deer can acquire infection by exposure to fomites from the environment of CWD-infected deer, supporting the findings of Miller et al in the natural environment [9], [67], [68], in demonstrating that there are sufficient infectious prions in bedding and water to transmit CWD.
An alternative, and more controversial, explanation is that people without access to an indoor water source may acquire infection by drinking or washing in outdoor water sources contaminated with feces from infected poultry.
However, it is shown that the phenomenon can be removed if all the susceptible individuals are equally likely to acquire infection (i.e., for the case where the susceptible male and female populations are not stratified according to risk of acquiring infection).
Humans acquire infection through ingestion, inhalation, or sexual transmission of spores [4].
