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FIELD: medicine. n SUBSTANCE: described humanised and chimeric CD20 antibodies are designed for treatment of CD20-positive malignant and autoimmune diseases. Antibody is effective with respect to depletion of B-cells of mammals in vivo, contains in variable region of H-chain of CDR3- sequence from antibody to human CD20 and practically all remains of consensus frame region (FR) of human H-chain of subgroup 111. According to invention antibody is used in composition or product, binding CD20. Besides, antibody is used for apoptosis induction, treatment of CB20-positive cancer, autoimmune disease, and rheumatic arthritis. Invention contains nucleic acid (NA) coding antibody, expression vector containing specified NA, and host cell producing recombinant antibody, as well as method of specified antibody production. According to invention antibodies are characterised by minimum antigenicity or no antigenicity at all, that enables to use them for continuous treatment overcoming limits of existing therapeutic compositions application. n EFFECT: enables to use for continuous treatment. n 83 cl, 32 dwg, 12 tbl, 16 ex |