ArticleDiagnostic microbiology and infectious disease2020
Assessment of sample pooling for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing for screening of asymptomatic persons in Tunisia.
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- Performance Evaluation of Nasopharyngeal Swab Pooling to Improve SARS-CoV-2 Testing Capacity via Closed Real-Time RT‒PCR Assays.Infection and drug resistance · 2026Article
- Reagent efficiency and analytical sensitivity optimization for a reliable SARS-CoV-2 pool-based testing strategy.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in wastewater in Tunisia.Journal of water and health · 2024Article
- Evaluations of modes of pooling specimens for COVID-19 screened by quantitative PCR and droplet digital PCR.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: Data Analysis and Assessment of Tunisian Strategy from January 2021 to February 2022.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Dorfman pooling enhances SARS-CoV-2 large-scale community testing efficiency.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Phylogenetic and amino acid signature analysis of the SARS-CoV-2s lineages circulating in Tunisia.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Identification-detection group testing protocols for COVID-19 at high prevalence.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Pooled Testing Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis: A comprehensive review.Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2021Review
- Pooling Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens to Improve Testing Capacity for SARS-CoV-2 by Real-Time RT-PCR.Biological procedures online · 2021Article
- Efficiency of pooled surveillance testing in academic labs to detect and inhibit COVID-19 outbreaks.Bioanalysis · 2021Article
- Sample pooling is efficient in PCR testing of SARS-CoV-2: a study in 7400 healthcare professionals.Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2021Article
- Pooled nasopharyngeal swab collection in a single vial for the diagnosis of SARS CoV-2 infection: An effective cost saving method.Indian journal of medical microbiology · 2021Article
- Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Review
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- Considerations for Pooled Testing of Employees for SARS-CoV-2.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2021Article
- Modelling the test, trace and quarantine strategy to control the COVID-19 epidemic in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2021Article
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Abstract
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 pools of up to 10. Each laboratory should conduct its own evaluation and validation of pooling protocols according to its specific context.
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