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SUBMITTER: Shental N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485993 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20200911 37
Recent reports suggest that 10 to 30% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2) infected patients are asymptomatic and that viral shedding may occur before symptom onset. Therefore, there is an urgent need to increase diagnostic testing capabilities to prevent disease spread. We developed P-BEST, a method for Pooling-Based Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Testing, which identifies all positive subjects within a set of samples using a single round of testing. Each sample is assigned in ...[more]