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. 2021 Jan;2(1):9-12.
doi: 10.1158/2643-3230.bcd-20-0177. Epub 2020 Nov 2.

Viral Immunity and Vaccines in Hematologic Malignancies: Implications for COVID-19

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Viral Immunity and Vaccines in Hematologic Malignancies: Implications for COVID-19

Madhav V Dhodapkar et al. Blood Cancer Discov. 2021 Jan.

Abstract

Patients with hematologic malignancies have increased susceptibility to viral infections and suboptimal immunologic responses to current vaccines due to both disease-associated and therapy-related immune dysfunction. These considerations may impact the efficacy of emerging COVID-19 vaccines in this patient population as well and warrant the need to systematically study natural and vaccine-induced virus-specific immunity in these patients.

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