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Evaluation of Group Testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA
Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong.
Daniel Klein.
Brendan Hickey.
Acceso Abierto
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas
10.1101/2020.03.27.20043968
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, testing kit and RNA extraction kit availability has become a major limiting factor in the ability to determine patient disease status and accurately quantify prevalence. Current testing strategies rely on individual tests of cases matching restrictive diagnostic criteria to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA, limiting testing of asymptomatic and mild cases. Testing these individuals is one effective way to understand and reduce the spread of COVID-19. Here, we develop a pooled testing strategy to identify these low-risk individuals. Drawing on the well-studied group testing literature, modeling suggests practical changes to testing protocols which can reduce test costs and stretch a limited test kit supply. When most tests are negative, pooling reduces the total number of tests up to four-fold at 2% prevalence and eight-fold at 0.5% prevalence. At current SARS-CoV-2 prevalence, randomized group testing optimized per country could double the number of tested individuals from 1.8M to 3.6M using only 672k more tests. This strategy is well-suited to supplement testing for asymptomatic and mild cases who would otherwise go untested, and enable them to adopt behavioral changes to slow the spread of COVID-19.
www.medrxiv.org
2020
Artículo
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043968v1.full.pdf
Inglés
VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS
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