Performance of the TaqMan COVID-19 Pooling Kit for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic and symptomatic populations

• Troy Ganz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Troy Ganz, Sarah Sanderson, Connor Baush, Melanie Mejia

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

  Affiliation Life Sciences Testing Center, Northeastern University, Burlington, MA, United States of America

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• Sarah Sanderson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Troy Ganz, Sarah Sanderson, Connor Baush, Melanie Mejia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Life Sciences Testing Center, Northeastern University, Burlington, MA, United States of America

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• Connor Baush ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Troy Ganz, Sarah Sanderson, Connor Baush, Melanie Mejia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Life Sciences Testing Center, Northeastern University, Burlington, MA, United States of America

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• Melanie Mejia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Troy Ganz, Sarah Sanderson, Connor Baush, Melanie Mejia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Life Sciences Testing Center, Northeastern University, Burlington, MA, United States of America

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• Manoj Gandhi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MG and JA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jared Auclair

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.auclair@northeastern.edu

  ¶‡ MG and JA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Life Sciences Testing Center, Northeastern University, Burlington, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-1544

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