Health Benefits of Temporary Infections

Population-Based Study of Lymphoma

Captured 2023-03-14
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A multi-centre, population-based case-control study of lymphoma among adults was conducted in Germany from 1999-2003.

The study comprised 700 incident cases (Hodgkin lymphomas and non Hodgkin’s lymphoma, NHL)…

Odds ratios (ORs)… were estimated…

The ORs for lymphoma were decreased formeasles infection [andBordatella pertussis infection