Proposal of RT-PCR –Based Mass Population Screening for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (Coronavirus Disease 2019)

This study investigated a sample pooling approach for feasibility and accuracy in a wide-scale population screening for coronavirus disease 2019. A total of 940 nasopharyngeal swab samples (934 negative and 6 positive) previously tested for SARS-CoV-2 were deidentified and assigned random numbers for analysis, and 94 pools of 10 samples each were generated.

Source: Journal of Molecular Diagnostics - July 28, 2020 Category: Pathology Authors: Nikhil S. Sahajpal, Ashis K. Mondal, Allan Njau, Sudha Ananth, Kimya Jones, Pankaj K. Ahluwalia, Meenakshi Ahluwalia, Yasmeen Jilani, Alka Chaubey, Madhuri Hegde, Vamsi Kota, Amyn Rojiani, Ravindra Kolhe Tags: Regular article Source Type: research