Pooling samples to increase testing capacity with Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 during the Covid-19 pandemic in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

• Vibol Iem,

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

  Affiliations National Tuberculosis Control Center, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6155-1402

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• Phonepadith Xangsayarath,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Phonenaly Chittamany,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Center, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Sakhone Suthepmany,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Center, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Souvimone Siphanthong,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Center, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Phimpha Paboriboune,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Infectiology Lao Christophe Mérieux, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Silaphet Somphavong,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Lao Association for Medical Laboratory Sciences, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Kontogianni Konstantina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5353-3682

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• Jahangir A. M. Khan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of Gothenburg, Health Economics and Policy Unit, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Thomas Edwards,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Tom Wingfield,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Global Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden, Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Jacob Creswell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Innovations and Grants, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4885-940X

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• Jose Dominguez ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institut d’Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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• Luis E. Cuevas

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

  * E-mail: Luis.Cuevas@lstmed.ac.uk

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6581-0587

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