Sample pooling strategies for SARS-CoV-2 detection

N Lagopati, P Tsioli, I Mourkioti, A Polyzou… - Journal of virological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic outburst has caused a serious public health issue with
increasing needs of accurate and rapid diagnostic and screening testing. This situation …

Optimizing COVID-19 surveillance in long-term care facilities: a modelling study

DRM Smith, A Duval, KB Pouwels, D Guillemot… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are vulnerable to outbreaks of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). Timely epidemiological surveillance is essential for outbreak …

Group testing as a strategy for COVID-19 epidemiological monitoring and community surveillance

V Brault, B Mallein, JF Rupprecht - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We propose an analysis and applications of sample pooling to the epidemiologic monitoring
of COVID-19. We first introduce a model of the RT-qPCR process used to test for the …

Pooled testing conserves SARS-CoV-2 laboratory resources and improves test turn-around time: experience on the Kenyan Coast

CN Agoti, M Mutunga, AW Lambisia… - Wellcome open …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background. International recommendations for the control of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic emphasize the central role of laboratory testing for severe acute …

Assessment of sample pooling for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing for screening of asymptomatic persons in Tunisia

S Abid, S Ferjani, A El Moussi, A Ferjani, M Nasr… - … and Infectious Disease, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to test a pooling approach for the RT-PCR test to detect low viral
loads of SARS-CoV-2. We found that a single positive specimen can still be detected in …

An epidemiological study on the prevalence of the clinical features of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Romanian people

C Ciucurel, EI Iconaru - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the clinical features of the SARS-
CoV-2 infection in Romanian population through a novel online survey. The survey included …

Modelling pool testing for SARS-CoV-2: addressing heterogeneity in populations

J Fernández-Salinas, D Aragón-Caqueo… - Epidemiology & …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Amplifying the testing capacity and making better use of testing resources is a crucial
measure when fighting any pandemic. A pooled testing strategy for SARS-CoV-2 has …

Considerations for pooled testing of employees for SARS-CoV-2

PA Schulte, DN Weissman, SE Luckhaupt… - … of Occupational and …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To identify important background information on pooled tested of employees that
employers workers, and health authorities should consider. Methods: This paper is a …

Application of pooled testing in estimating the prevalence of COVID-19

P Guha, A Guha, T Bandyopadhyay - Health Services and Outcomes …, 2022 - Springer
Testing at a mass scale has been widely accepted as an effective way to contain the spread
of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. In the initial stages, the shortage of test kits severely restricted …

Flexible, efficient, and accurate tests for epidemics

L Fang, BY **g, S Ling, Q Wang, Q Yang - Science China Mathematics, 2024 - Springer
Group testing involves discovering a small subset of distinguished subjects from a large
population while efficiently reducing the total number of tests. It has been widely used for …