In the Final Trimester of Pregnancy, Your Test Results Came

question 39

Multiple Choice

In the final trimester of pregnancy, your test results came back positive for an infection that would likely be damaging for the newborn, so your doctor wants to prescribe an antibiotic.What organism is the likely culprit here?

• A)Group B Streptococcus
• B) Herpes simplex 2
• C) Leptospira
• D) Trichomonas

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A nonparametric statistical test for assessing whether two samples come from the same distribution, based on rank sums.

Alternative Hypothesis

The hypothesis that there is a significant difference between groups or conditions, contrasting the null hypothesis in statistical testing.

Systematically Larger

Relating to something that consistently exhibits larger values or sizes than others within a set or compared to a benchmark.

Normal Approximation

A method used in statistics to approximate a binomial distribution with a normal distribution when the sample size is large enough.