Role of acute and early HIV infection in the sexual transmission of HIV

WC Miller, NE Rosenberg, SE Rutstein… - Current Opinion in HIV …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Role of acute and early HIV infection in the sexual transmis... : Current Opinion in HIV and
AIDS Role of acute and early HIV infection in the sexual transmission of HIV : Current Opinion …

How can we better identify early HIV infections?

NE Rosenberg, CD Pilcher, MP Busch… - Current Opinion in HIV …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
There are important recent advances in detection of EHIs at the individual and population
levels. Applying optimal combinations of tests in diagnostic and HIV incidence algorithms is …

Bayesian optimization of function networks

R Astudillo, P Frazier - Advances in neural information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider Bayesian optimization of the output of a network of functions, where each
function takes as input the output of its parent nodes, and where the network takes …

Optimization of group size in pool testing strategy for SARS‐CoV‐2: A simple mathematical model

D Aragón‐Caqueo… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Coronavirus disease (Covid‐19) has reached unprecedented pandemic levels and
is affecting almost every country in the world. Ramping up the testing capacity of a country …

Group testing for SARS-CoV-2 allows for up to 10-fold efficiency increase across realistic scenarios and testing strategies

CM Verdun, T Fuchs, P Harar, D Elbrächter… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, demand for diagnostic testing has
increased drastically, resulting in shortages of necessary materials to conduct the tests and …

High-throughput pooling and real-time PCR-based strategy for malaria detection

SM Taylor, JJ Juliano, PA Trottman… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular assays can provide critical information for malaria diagnosis, speciation, and drug
resistance, but their cost and resource requirements limit their application to clinical malaria …

Implementation of large-scale pooled testing to increase rapid molecular diagnostic test coverage for tuberculosis: a retrospective evaluation

C Vuchas, P Teyim, BF Dang, A Neh, L Keugni… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In 2021, only 6.4 million of the 10.6 million people with tuberculosis (TB) were
diagnosed and treated for the disease. Although the World Health Organization …

Informative dorfman screening

CS McMahan, JM Tebbs, CR Bilder - Biometrics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Since the early 1940s, group testing (pooled testing) has been used to reduce costs in a
variety of applications, including infectious disease screening, drug discovery, and genetics …

Group testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 to enable rapid scale-up of testing and real-time surveillance of incidence

CD Pilcher, D Westreich… - The Journal of Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput molecular testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) may be enabled by group testing in which pools of specimens are screened …

Comparison of microscopy, nested-PCR, and Real-Time-PCR assays using high-throughput screening of pooled samples for diagnosis of malaria in asymptomatic …

B Wang, SS Han, C Cho, JH Han… - Journal of clinical …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Asymptomatic infection is an important obstacle for controlling disease in countries where
malaria is endemic. Because asymptomatic carriers do not seek treatment for their …