Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Takyi-Williams J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430343 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medical hypotheses 20200817
In the advent of COVID-19 pandemic, testing is highly essential to be able to identify, isolate, treat infected persons, and finally curb transmission of this infectious respiratory disease. Group testing has been used previously for various infectious diseases and recently reported for large-scale population testing of COVID-19. However, possible sample dilution as a result of large pool sizes has been reported, limiting testing methods' detection sensitivity. Moreover, the need to sample all i ...[more]