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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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Dr. Martin Morell
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Rheumatology 31 years experience
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.
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