{"id":85506,"date":"2020-04-15T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14832"},"modified":"2020-04-15T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:14:31","slug":"pooled-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pooled-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooled Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued an advisory for using pooled samples for testing of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pooled testing, also known as group testing, is a procedure where individual specimens (e.g., urine or blood) are combined into a common pool.<\/li><li>If the pooled test turns out to be positive, individual samples are tested- pool de-convolution. If there\u2019s no positive result, all individual samples in the pool are regarded as negative.<\/li><li><strong>Significance:<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Helps to reduce the cost of screening a large number of individuals for infectious diseases.<\/li><li>Can also help in tracing asymptomatic cases of the disease, thereby tracking community transmission.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued an advisory for using pooled samples for testing of COVID-19. Facts: Pooled testing, also known as group testing, is a procedure where individual specimens (e.g., urine or blood) are combined into a common pool. If the pooled test turns out to be positive, individual samples are tested-&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pooled-testing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pooled Testing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2868],"class_list":["post-85506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-pooled-testing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704934019},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}