Validation of specimen pooling using the Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 assay

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, New South Wales Health Pathology-Nepean, Penrith, NSW, Australia.
• ² New South Wales Health Pathology - Public Health Pathology State-wide Service, Westmead, NSW, Australia.
• ³ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, New South Wales Health Pathology-Nepean, Penrith, NSW, Australia; Nepean Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Kingswood, NSW, Australia.
• ⁴ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, New South Wales Health Pathology-Nepean, Penrith, NSW, Australia; Nepean Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Kingswood, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: james.branley@health.nsw.gov.au.