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Correspondence response
Response to: ‘Belimumab and the measurement of fatigue’ by Mazzoni
  1. V Strand1,
  2. R A Levy2,
  3. R Cervera3,
  4. M Petri4
  1. 1Division Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
  2. 2Department of Medicine, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  3. 3Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
  4. 4Department of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Vibeke Strand, Division Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94028, USA; vstrand{at}aol.com
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207700

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