SARS-CoV-2 surveillance by RT-qPCR-based pool testing of saliva swabs (lollipop method) at primary and special schools—A pilot study on feasibility and acceptability

• Anika Kästner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anika Kästner, Petra Lücker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: anika.kaestner@med.uni-greifswald.de

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1625-4836

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• Petra Lücker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anika Kästner, Petra Lücker

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

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Martina Sombetzki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-0635

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• Manja Ehmke,

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

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Nicole Koslowski,

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

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Swantje Mittmann,

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

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Arne Hannich,

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

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Antje Schwarz,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Labor MVZ Westmecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany

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• Kristian Meinck,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IMD Labor Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3993-7250

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• Lena Schmeyers,

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

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Katrin Schmidt,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Emil C. Reisinger,

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

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3083-8504

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• Wolfgang Hoffmann

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

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6359-8797

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