Longitudinal analysis of tetanus- and influenza-specific IgG antibodies in myeloma patients.

Sebastian Kobold; Tim Luetkens; Britta Marlen Bartels; Yanran Cao; York Hildebrandt; Orhan Sezer; Henrike Reinhard; Julia Templin; Katrin Bartels; Nesrine Lajmi; Friedrich Haag; Carsten Bokemeyer; Nicolaus Kröger; Djordje Atanackovic

doi:10.1155/2012/134081

Longitudinal analysis of tetanus- and influenza-specific IgG antibodies in myeloma patients.

Sebastian Kobold
Tim Luetkens
Britta Marlen Bartels
Yanran Cao
York Hildebrandt
Orhan Sezer
Henrike Reinhard
Julia Templin
Katrin Bartels
Nesrine Lajmi
Friedrich Haag
Carsten Bokemeyer
Nicolaus Kröger
Djordje Atanackovic

Related Research units

II. Department of Medicine
Department of Stem Cell Transplantation
Institute for Immunology

Abstract

Multiple myeloma (MM) and its therapies may induce a severely compromised humoral immunity. We have performed a longitudinal analysis of IgG-antibody responses against influenza virus (FLU) and tetanus toxoid (TT) as surrogate markers for the B cell-mediated immunity in MM patients.

Bibliographical data

Original language	English
ISSN	1740-2530
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/134081
Publication status	Published - 2012

pubmed	22481961