Antibodies

TAMPA, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Telling It Like It Is meeting, Neel R. Desai, MD, discusses Fortisite, a topical antibiotic compounded combination of tobramycin 1.5% and vancomycin 5% from ImprimisRx.

Higher anti-drug antibody levels were associated with an increased risk for tumor necrosis factor inhibitor treatment failure in patients with noninfectious uveitis who received adalimumab, according to a study.

NEW ORLEANS — Breakthrough COVID infection rates in patients with hematologic malignancies did not correlate with anti-spike antibody levels, suggesting mRNA vaccines may have lost efficacy against the omicron strain, according to a study.

CHICAGO — Divyanshu Dubey, MBBS, discusses the use of antibody evaluations in the workup for neuropathies during a presentation at the 2022 American Neurological Association’s annual meeting.

Early data from trials assessing the new Pfizer and BioNTech omicron-adapted booster vaccine show that the vaccine substantially increased protective antibodies against the BA.5 subvariant in adults.

Patients on hemodialysis who received the high-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine showed a stronger seroresponse than those who received other vaccines, according to data published the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Memo Therapeutics AG announced the initiation of a phase 1 clinical study to examine MTX-005 against BK polyomavirus infection among kidney transplant patients.

LISBON, Portugal — Pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection passed antibodies to newborns in most cases, although there were no cases of neonatal infection in a study presented here.

Implementation of evidence-based adherence-promotion strategies correlated with a 50% reduction in acute allograft rejection for 2 years among kidney transplant recipients.

Despite a significant decrease in immunosuppression, the occurrence of post-COVID-19 donor-specific antibodies among COVID-19-positive kidney transplant recipients was low, according to data published in Kidney International Reports.