TY - JOUR T1 - Diagnostic testing in primary ciliary dyskinesia JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 960 LP - 961 DO - 10.1183/13993003.00909-2016 VL - 48 IS - 3 AU - Jane S. Lucas AU - Borislav D. Dimitrov AU - Laura Behan AU - Claudia E. Kuehni Y1 - 2016/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/3/960.abstract N2 - We thank very much I. Amirav and P.M. Boussuyt for their interest in our manuscripts [1, 2]. We agree that our two studies have some limitations, caused by the lack of a “gold standard” test for diagnosing primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), but we strongly disagree with their claim that we “did not notify the readers of these design deficiencies”. Instead, we had taken great care to highlight these uncertainties and risks of bias.Keeping up the momentum to develop an evidence base for the diagnosis of PCD http://ow.ly/o6zq300uhcw ER -