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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.

Dr Rhoads agreed

Answered 5/28/2017

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