Assessing the impact of lateral flow testing strategies on within-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission and absences: A modelling study

Trystan Leng; Edward M. Hill; Robin N. Thompson; Michael J. Tildesley; Matt J. Keeling; Louise Dyson

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010158

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Assessing the impact of lateral flow testing strategies on within-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission and absences: A modelling study

Trystan Leng ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: trystan.leng@imperial.ac.uk

Current address: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, JUNIPER – Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research, https://maths.org/juniper/

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8312-9405

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Edward M. Hill,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, JUNIPER – Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research, https://maths.org/juniper/

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-2004

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Robin N. Thompson,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, JUNIPER – Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research, https://maths.org/juniper/

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8545-5212

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Michael J. Tildesley,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, JUNIPER – Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research, https://maths.org/juniper/

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6875-7232

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Matt J. Keeling,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, JUNIPER – Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research, https://maths.org/juniper/

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-4765

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Louise Dyson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, JUNIPER – Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research, https://maths.org/juniper/

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9788-4858

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Assessing the impact of lateral flow testing strategies on within-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission and absences: A modelling study

Trystan Leng,
Edward M. Hill,
Robin N. Thompson,
Michael J. Tildesley,
Matt J. Keeling,
Louise Dyson

Published: May 27, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010158

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