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SUBMITTER: Hou P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362369 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hou Peijie P Tebbs Joshua M JM Bilder Christopher R CR McMahan Christopher S CS
Biometrics 20160922 2
Group testing, where individuals are tested initially in pools, is widely used to screen a large number of individuals for rare diseases. Triggered by the recent development of assays that detect multiple infections at once, screening programs now involve testing individuals in pools for multiple infections simultaneously. Tebbs, McMahan, and Bilder (2013, Biometrics) recently evaluated the performance of a two-stage hierarchical algorithm used to screen for chlamydia and gonorrhea as part of th ...[more]