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. 2016 Oct 24;54(11):2711–2715. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01373-16

TABLE 4.

Prospective direct comparison of individual and postenrichment pooled NAAT techniques for STEC detection

Category (n) No. of samples (mean/day) No. of pools (no. resolved) Mean individual NAAT labor time (h) Mean pooled NAAT labor time (h) Pooled − individual NAAT Δtime (h)
No. of positive sample days (23) 398 (17.3) 50 (0) 1.53 0.93 0.6
Positive sample days (7) 114 (16.3) 14 (7) 1.70 1.86 −0.16
Total days (30) 512 (17.1) 64 (7) 1.57 1.15 0.42