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Response to: ‘Detection of myositis-specific antibodies: additional notes’ by Infantino et al
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  1. Anna Tjärnlund1,
  2. Ingrid E Lundberg1,
  3. Johan Rönnelid2
  1. 1 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  2. 2 Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  1. Correspondence to Anna Tjärnlund, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm S-171 76, Sweden; anna.tjarnlund{at}ki.se

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We have with great interest read the response letter by Dr Infantino and colleagues on testing of methodologies used for detection of myositis-specific antibodies (MSA), to be published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.1 The authors discuss the need for validation of methodologies used for identifying MSA. The discussion stems from the publication of the new classification criteria for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) ‘2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups’ that …

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