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Strategies for adaptive and nonadaptive group testing are developed when the items are linearly ordered and the positive items form a consecutive subset of all items.
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The research was supported in part by the US Army Research Office under Grant DAAG55-98-1-0272.
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Colbourn, C.J. Group testing for consecutive positives. Annals of Combinatorics 3, 37–41 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609873
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609873