Tests in Short Supply? Try Group Testing

Overview

Journal Signif (Oxf)

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Public Health

Date 2020 Jun 16

PMID 32536952

Citations 10

Authors

Christopher R Bilder

Peter C Iwen

Baha Abdalhamid

Joshua M Tebbs

Christopher S McMahan

Affiliations

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Abstract

and explain how, by pooling specimens, testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 can be increased.

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