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Is there a role for antibody testing to confirm vaccine response for patients on rituximab after COVID-19 vaccination?

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Do you routinely perform antibody testing to confirm COVID-19 vaccine response in immunosuppressed patients?

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Rheumatology · Emory University
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It's a great question, but I do not feel that routinely performing COVID antibody testing would help in the management of these patients:

We don't know how well most commercial antibody testing correlates with neutralizing antibody/immune-status (esp. if qualitative testing is performed), and I have...

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