{"id":8578,"date":"2018-01-04T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:03:19","slug":"whats-favorite-diagnostic-test-infectious-diseases-another-fantasy-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/whats-favorite-diagnostic-test-infectious-diseases-another-fantasy-draft\/2018\/01\/04\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Favorite Diagnostic Test in Infectious Diseases? Another Fantasy Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/microphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8579\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/microphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/microphone.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/microphone-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/microphone-768x1043.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/microphone-754x1024.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re wondering what to do while hunkering down during the &#8220;Bomb Cyclone,&#8221; here&#8217;s just the thing &#8212; the latest podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Open Forum Infectious Diseases.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Remember &#8212; that&#8217;s &#8220;O-F-I-D&#8221;, not &#8220;Oh-FID&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Again, I welcome my friend and colleague Rebeca Plank, and this time we&#8217;re picking our <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/article\/4\/4\/ofx266\/4781496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Favorite<\/em> <em>Diagnostic Tests in ID.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While winter storm Grayson gives us blizzard conditions and zero visibility outside, inside you&#8217;ll sip hot cocoa, pull the blanket around your shoulders, and thrill to our selections.<\/p>\n<p>We choose our top 3 favorite tests, our <em>least<\/em> favorite test, and something we wish we had in clinical practice now that we lack.<\/p>\n<p>Please listen! And let me know:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Your favorite and least favorite ID diagnostic tests.<\/li>\n<li>What should we draft next?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s someone who knows what to do today.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CUTEFUNNYANIMAL\/status\/948170043350769664<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what to do while hunkering down during the &#8220;Bomb Cyclone,&#8221; here&#8217;s just the thing &#8212; the latest podcast on Open Forum Infectious Diseases. (Remember &#8212; that&#8217;s &#8220;O-F-I-D&#8221;, not &#8220;Oh-FID&#8221;.) Again, I welcome my friend and colleague Rebeca Plank, and this time we&#8217;re picking our Favorite Diagnostic Tests in ID. While winter storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[1163,1162],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-infectious-diseases","tag-ofid","tag-podcasts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}