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ajlm-2514	Eliya, Timan T.; Isere, Elvis E.; Emmana, Bassey; Ugwu, Chukwuebuka; Kushim, Jonathan; Ishaku, Precious; Ibrahim, Aisha E.; Bimba, John S.	Impact of viral load on sample pooling for reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction detection-based diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 in Nigeria	2025		.htm	text/html	3946	210	49	A similar study carried out in Israel in 2020 reported that using a pooled testing approach for standard RT-PCR for COVID-19 detection with a single positive sample could detect a pool of up to 32 samples, with an estimated false-negative rate of 10%.20 A study from Malaysia, evaluating the effectiveness of pooled sample testing for COVID-19 RT-PCR, conducted in 2020 by Lim et al.,1 utilised both retrospective and prospective samples. Data management and analysis The Ct values of the test outcomes from the RT-PCR analysis of pooled samples were entered into an anonymised, password-protected Excel spreadsheet (Office 2016, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, United States), and the data were analysed descriptively using charts and tables.	cache/ajlm-2514.htm	txt/ajlm-2514.txt