What testing would be appropriate to diagnose this

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You are seeing a patient who presents with pelvic pain, vaginal discharge, abnormal bleeding and dysuria. On exam you find abdominal tenderness, cervical discharge and cervical motion tenderness. You suspect pelvic inflammatory disease. What testing would be appropriate to diagnose this?

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