Testing of four-sample pools offers resource optimization without compromising diagnostic performance of real time reverse transcriptase-PCR assay for COVID-19

• Anirudh K. Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anirudh K. Singh, Ram Kumar Nema

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ Order of the name was decided alphabetically.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8625-4447

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• Ram Kumar Nema ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anirudh K. Singh, Ram Kumar Nema

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ Order of the name was decided alphabetically.

  Affiliation Regional Virology Laboratory, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Ankur Joshi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Prem Shankar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Sudheer Gupta,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Virology Laboratory, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Ashvini Kumar Yadav,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Virology Laboratory, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Shashwati Nema,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Bijina J. Mathew,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Arti Shrivas,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Chitra Patankar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Arun Raghuwanshi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Virology Laboratory, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Ritu Pandey,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Ranu Tripathi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Kudsia Ansari,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Virology Laboratory, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Kuldeep Singh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Jogender Yadav,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Debasis Biswas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: debasis.microbiology@aiimsbhopal.edu.in

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, Regional Virology Laboratory, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-3693

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• Sarman Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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