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. 2020 Oct 31;14(10):1136-1137.
doi: 10.3855/jidc.13935.

Cost Effectiveness of Sample Pooling to Test for SARS-CoV-2

Baha Abdalhamid  1 , Christopher Richard Bilder  2 , Jodi Louise Garrett  3 , Peter Charles Iwen  4
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Cost Effectiveness of Sample Pooling to Test for SARS-CoV-2

Baha Abdalhamid et al. J Infect Dev Ctries. .
No abstract available

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; Sample Pooling; savings.

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