Validation and deployment of a direct saliva real-time RT-PCR test on pooled samples for COVID-19 surveillance testing

• Amanda Rainey,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Austin Pierce,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Xiaoyun Deng,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Luis A. Actis,

  Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Philip Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Andor J. Kiss,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Timothy J. Wilson

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

  * E-mail: tim.wilson@miamioh.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8403-9401

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