ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2021
Pooling of Nasopharyngeal Swab Samples To Overcome a Global Shortage of Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR COVID-19 Test Kits.
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- Diagnostic performance of antigen test for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 among patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms at Bugando Medical Centre.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Clinical validation of 3D-printed swabs in adults and children for SARS-CoV-2 detection.Biology methods & protocols · 2023Article
- Strategies for Scaling up SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing Capacity.Clinics in laboratory medicine · 2022Review
- Effective bubble-based testing for SARS-CoV-2 using swab-pooling.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2022Article
- An improvement of current hypercube pooling PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 detection.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR testing of pooled saliva samples: A case study of 824 asymptomatic individuals and a questionnaire survey in Japan.PloS one · 2022Article
- Pooled Testing Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis: A comprehensive review.Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2021Review
- The Hologic Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay enables high ratio pooling saving reagents and improving turnaround time.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2021Article
- Evaluation of automated molecular tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in pooled nasopharyngeal and saliva specimens.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2021Article
- The best pooling strategy to reduce polymerase chain reaction tests during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic at low prevalence.Tzu chi medical journalArticle
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Abstract
The global outbreak and rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have created an urgent need for large-scale testing of populations. There is a demand for high-throughput testing protocols that can be used for efficient and rapid testing of clinical specimens. We evaluated a pooled PCR protocol for testing nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs using known positive/negative and untested clinical samples that were assigned to pools of 5 or 10. In total, 630 samples were used in this study. Individual positive samples with cycle threshold (
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