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I am currently on retuximab maintenance and my pneumococcal and haemophilus antibodies are suboptimal - can you tell me what this means?
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Antibodies: Rituximab targets your B lymphocytes, some of these are in charge of producing antibodies. Perhaps the treatment is interfering somewhat with your antibody titers to these germs.
Answered 5/28/2017
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