• DOI:10.1542/peds.2004-2773
Corpus ID: 20493524

Disease Versus Disease: How One Disease May Ameliorate Another

@article{Stiehm2006DiseaseVD,
  title={Disease Versus Disease: How One Disease May Ameliorate Another},
  author={E. R. Stiehm},
  journal={Pediatrics},
  year={2006},
  volume={117},
  pages={184 - 191}
}

E. R. Stiehm

Published 2006

Medicine

Pediatrics

Systemic disease, either genetic or acquired, may prevent or decrease the severity of another disease. These observations have led to important therapeutic advances. The best-known examples are Edward Jenner's use in 1798 of cowpox to prevent smallpox and J.B. Haldane's 1942 observation that erythrocyte disorders such as thalassemia and sickle cell disease modify the severity of malaria. Patients with and carriers of cystic fibrosis may have genetic resistance to tuberculosis and/or secretory… CONTINUE READING

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