Infectious disease pop quiz: Clinical challenge #14 for the ObGyn
Concise Q&As to hone your skills in infectious disease symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatment in pregnant and nonpregnant women
In this question-and-answer series, our objective is to reinforce for the clinician several practical points of management for common infectious diseases. The principal references for the answers to the questions are 2 textbook chapters written by Dr. Duff.1,2 Other pertinent references are included in the text.
The 2 key diagnostic tests for COVID-19 infection are detecting antigen in nasopharyngeal washings or saliva by nucleic acid amplification tests and identifying ground-glass opacities on computed tomography imaging of the chest. (Berlin DA, Gulick RM, Martinez FJ. Severe Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020;383:2451-2460.)
