Table 1 Characteristics of Alethia^® Illumigene Malaria kit and HumaTurb Loopamp™ Malaria PDT kit

Mean time to result as measured in the study

44 min

60 min

Time to result as reported by the manufacturer^a

 < 45 min

50–55 min

Mean active time as measured in the study

4 min

10 min

Analysis^a

Qualitative

Qualitative + turbidity graph and time to detection

Maximum samples per run^a

10

16 (up to 94 if expanded with 6 HumaTurb A units)

Species identification^a

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 results^a

Turbidity in Illumipro-10™ incubator or by eye

Turbidity in turbidimeter or fluorescence detected by eye

Limit of detection^a

2.0 p/µL for P. falciparum and 0.1 p/µL for P. vivax

1 p/µL