Alethia® illumigene Malaria | HumaTurb Loopamp™ Malaria PDT | |
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Mean time to result as measured in the study | 44 min | 60 min |
Time to result as reported by the manufacturera | < 45 min | 50–55 min |
Mean active time as measured in the study | 4 min | 10 min |
Analysisa | Qualitative | Qualitative + turbidity graph and time to detection |
Maximum samples per runa | 10 | 16 (up to 94 if expanded with 6 HumaTurb A units) |
Species identificationa | Not possible | Not possible |
Validated for species detection | P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae. Performance for P. knowlesi established using purified genomic DNA only; whole organism testing has not been performed | P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae. P. knowlesi validated in one study [20]b |
Read out of the resultsa | Turbidity in Illumipro-10™ incubator or by eye | Turbidity in turbidimeter or fluorescence detected by eye |
Limit of detectiona | 2.0 p/µL for P. falciparum and 0.1 p/µL for P. vivax | 1 p/µL |