More numerous and severe primary HIV-1 infection symptoms predict more rapid disease
progression. Pooled HIV-1 RNA screening and fourth generation HIV-1 enzyme …

In the current COVID19 crisis many national healthcare systems are confronted with an
acute shortage of tests for confirming SARS-CoV-2 infections. For low overall infection levels …

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 …

Group testing (ie, testing multiple subjects simultaneously with a single test) is essential for
classifying a large population of subjects as positive or negative for a binary characteristic …

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 …

Recent studies have shown the public health importance of identifying individuals with acute
human immunodeficiency virus infection (AHI); however, the cost of nucleic acid …

Group testing increases efficiency by pooling patient specimens and clearing the entire
group with one negative test. Optimal grouping strategy is well studied in one-off testing …

In situations where individuals are screened for an infectious disease or other binary
characteristic and where resources for testing are limited, group testing can offer substantial …

We provide a novel regret-based robust formulation of the Dorfman group size problem
considering the realistic setting where the prevalence rate is uncertain, establish key …

Screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has benefited greatly from the use of
group testing (pooled testing) to lower costs. With the development of assays that detect …