Detection of SARS-CoV-2 through pool testing for COVID-19: an integrative review.

Murilo Soares Costa Nathalia Sernizon Guimarães André Barbosa de Andrade Luiza Passini Vaz-Tostes Rhuan Braga Oliveira Madara da Silva Simões Gabriel de Oliveira Gelape Claudia Regina Lindgren Alves Elaine Leandro Machado Flavio Guimarães da Fonseca Santuza Maria Ribeiro Teixeira Hugo Itaru Sato Ricardo Hiroshi Caldeira Takahashi Unaí Tupinambás

Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2021)

This review suggests that pool testing in the general population may be a useful surveillance strategy to detect new variants of SARS-CoV-2 and to evaluate the period of immunogenicity and global immunity from vaccines.

Keyphrases

sars cov
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
public health
copy number
coronavirus disease
loop mediated isothermal amplification
sensitive detection
quantum dots