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Sample pooling methods for efficient pathogen screening: Practical implications.

Tara N Furstenau¹, Jill H Cocking^1,2, Crystal M Hepp^1,2

¹School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America.

|November 11, 2020

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Screening large populations for rare pathogens is costly. This study introduces a new sample pooling method that balances test number, speed, pool size, simplicity, and robustness for efficient pathogen detection.

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Area of Science:

Epidemiology
Bioinformatics
Public Health

Background:

Large-scale pathogen screening is often inefficient and costly due to the high number of negative test results.
Traditional group testing methods prioritize minimizing the total number of tests but may neglect other practical considerations.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate and compare various theoretical approaches for sample pooling in large-scale pathogen screening.
To introduce and validate a novel sample pooling method that optimizes multiple performance criteria.

Main Methods:

Computational simulations were employed to assess different pooling strategies.
Key performance metrics included the number of tests, sequential steps, pool size, simplicity, and robustness to estimation errors.

Main Results:

Established sample pooling methods often excel in one aspect while underperforming in others.
The newly introduced method demonstrated balanced performance across all evaluated criteria.

Conclusions:

A novel, general-purpose sample pooling method offers a practical solution for efficient large-scale pathogen screening.
This approach addresses the limitations of existing methods by optimizing multiple trade-offs for cost, time, and accuracy.