SARS-CoV-2 has surged across the globe causing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Systematic testing to facilitate index case isolation and contact tracing is needed for efficient …

SARS-CoV-2 infection has generated the biggest pandemic since the influenza outbreak of
1918–1919. One clear difference between these pandemics has been the ability to test for …

In many countries a second wave of infections caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has occurred, triggering a shortage of reagents …

Population screening played a substantial role in safely reopening the economy and
avoiding new outbreaks of COVID-19. PCR-based pooled screening makes it possible to …

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the spread of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (coronavirus disease …

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 …

Purpose This study is aims at evaluating the efficacy and sensitivity of specimen pooling for
testing of SARS-CoV-2 virus to determine the accuracy, resource savings, and identification …

Facing the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic requires intensive testing on the population to early
identify and isolate infected subjects. During the first emergency phase of the epidemic, RT …

In the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, pooled testing of samples by RT-PCR has been
recommended at certain scenarios to increase labs' testing capacity and reduce cost of …

Background The detection of SARS-CoV-2 using qRT-PCR with the pooling of samples can
reduce workload and costs especially when the prevalence rate of COVID-19 in a …