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Comment
. 2020 Nov:132:104619.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104619. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Pooled Testing for Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Asymptomatic Individuals

Sanchita Das  1 , Anna F Lau  2 , Jung-Ho Youn  2 , Pavel P Khil  2 , Adrian M Zelazny  2 , Karen M Frank  2
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Pooled Testing for Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Asymptomatic Individuals

Sanchita Das et al. J Clin Virol. 2020 Nov.
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Unidirectional workflow for SARS-CoV-2 testing of 10-specimen pools. Each pool (blue tube) receives a unique accession number (grey label shown as AXV4588). Each individual specimen in the pool (orange cap tubes) receive two identifiers, one unique identifier for the individual specimen (blue label) and one common (grey label) linking each of the ten specimens to the pool. The entire rack of 11 tubes are moved through the multiple stations. Note: blue “pool” tube is empty and added to the rack at the accessioning station while orange cap tubes containing MT swab with VTM from 10 individuals are received and accessioned at the pooling station before generation of a “pool”.
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