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ArticleJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology2021

Evaluation of sample pooling for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in nasopharyngeal swabs and salivas on the Roche Cobas 6800.

Tracy McMillen, Krupa Jani, N Esther Babady

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Article in Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. SARS-CoV-2 saliva testing using RT-PCR: a systematic review.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tracy McMillenClinical Microbiology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.
Krupa JaniClinical Microbiology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.
N Esther BabadyClinical Microbiology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States; Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: babadyn@mskcc.org.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Roche Cobas SARS-CoV-2 test recently received an Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration UA for pooling of up to six nasopharyngeal swab samples (NPS). We evaluated the 6-pool approach on both NPS and saliva samples using 564 samples (20 positive NPS and saliva samples each and 262 negative NPS and saliva samples each). The sensitivity of the Roche SARS-CoV-2 RNA test for pooled NPS samples was 100 % (95 %CI: 83.2-100 %) and the sensitivity for pooled saliva samples was 90 % (95 % CI: 68.3-98.8 %). Given the high throughput of the Roche Cobas 6800, pooling of 6 samples has the potential to significantly increase testing capacity without significant loss in sensitivity.

Indexed as

Specimen HandlingCOVID-19COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingDiagnostic Tests, RoutineHumansNasopharynxRNA, ViralSalivaSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificityRNA, ViralRT-PCR EUASalivaSample poolingSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33770658
PMCPMC7944801
OpenAlexW3133657533

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