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That’s not how anti-cd20 bcell depleters work. It kills mature bcells but leaves intact your adult mature plasma cells and thus your immunological memory. Your vaccinations and other immunities acquired prior to starting on bcell depleters remain intact, it’s producing future responses to new pathogens that is blunted.


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