ArticleJournal of global health2020
Optimizing the diagnostic capacity for COVID-19 PCR testing for low resource and high demand settings: The development of information-dependent pooling protocol.
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- Choice of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test: challenges and key considerations for the future.Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences · 2022Review
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- Modeling the COVID-19 epidemic in Croatia: a comparison of three analytic approaches.Croatian medical journal · 2022Article
- Cost analysis of coronavirus disease 2019 test strategies using pooled reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction technique.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2022Article
- Pooled Testing Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis: A comprehensive review.Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2021Review
- Coronavirus epidemic in Croatia: case fatality decline during summer?Croatian medical journal · 2020Article
- Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Testing in Croatia: Risk Perception Plays an Important Role in the Epidemic Control.Frontiers in public healthArticle
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Abstract
aimTo compare different pooling methods in an attempt to improve the COVID-19 PCR diagnostic capacities.
methodWe developed a novel information-dependent pooling protocol (
resultsAll five methods yielded various amount of test savings, which mostly depended on the virus prevalence in the population. In situations of low prevalence (up to 5%),
conclusionThe increasing demand for more testing globally can benefit from application of pooling, especially in resource-restrained situations of the low- and middle-income countries or situations of high testing demand. Singular testing in situations of low prevalence should be systematically discouraged.
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