{"id":5490,"date":"2020-03-27T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:12:13","slug":"evaluation-of-covid-19-rt-qpcr-test-in-multi-sample-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/evaluation-of-covid-19-rt-qpcr-test-in-multi-sample-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of COVID-19 RT-qPCR test in multi-sample pools."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors found that a pooled sampling approach consistently detected single samples of SARS-Cov-2 in pools of up to 32 unique samples, with an estimated false negative rate of 10%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This method could be applied immediately in current clinical testing laboratories, potentially enabling expansion of screening capacities to enable monitoring cohesive groups like hospital staff, military units, or factory workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yelin et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Evaluation of COVID-19 RT-qPCR test in multi-sample pools. Pre-print downloaded Mar 27 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.26.20039438\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.26.20039438<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors found that a pooled sampling approach consistently detected single samples of SARS-Cov-2 in pools of up to 32 unique samples, with an estimated false negative rate of 10%. This method could be applied immediately in current clinical testing laboratories, potentially enabling expansion of screening capacities to enable monitoring cohesive groups like hospital staff,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/evaluation-of-covid-19-rt-qpcr-test-in-multi-sample-pools\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}