{"id":5713,"date":"2020-04-07T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:24:56","slug":"sample-pooling-as-a-strategy-to-detect-community-transmission-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/07\/sample-pooling-as-a-strategy-to-detect-community-transmission-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Pooling as a Strategy to Detect Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors used sampled pooling, a strategy used for community monitoring of other infectious diseases, in this retrospective study to increase overall testing efficiency at an expected slight loss of sensitivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">292 pools were screened, corresponding with 2740 nasopharyngeal samples and 148 bronchoalveolar lavage samples, collected from inpatients and outpatients between Jan 1-Feb 26 in the San Francisco Bay area. Results suggest that pooled screening may facilitate detection of early community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and enable timely implementation of appropriate infection control measures to reduce spread.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hogan et al. (Apr 6, 2020). Sample Pooling as a Strategy to Detect Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2. JAMA. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2764364\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2764364<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors used sampled pooling, a strategy used for community monitoring of other infectious diseases, in this retrospective study to increase overall testing efficiency at an expected slight loss of sensitivity.\u00a0 292 pools were screened, corresponding with 2740 nasopharyngeal samples and 148 bronchoalveolar lavage samples, collected from inpatients and outpatients between Jan 1-Feb 26 in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/07\/sample-pooling-as-a-strategy-to-detect-community-transmission-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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-5713","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\/5713","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=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}