Team:Amplino/Solution/Competition

From 2012e.igem.org

Competition

Organizations such as Unitaid or the World Health Organisation publish yearly documents on the competitive landscape of malaria diagnostics. The UNITAID report can be found [http://www.unitaid.eu/images/marketdynamics/publications/UNITAID%20Malaria%20Diagnostics%20Market%20Landscape_2012.pdf here].

A great number of malaria diagnostics methods already exists, but most of them are still constrained inside laboratories, as shown in the image below (image courtesy of UNITAID)

In the table below we compare a great number of competitors in the field of medical diagnostics. Not all of them necessarily offer products for Malaria, but we feel the technology they posses might be applicable.

When judging their potential threat, we used a scoring system based on our business and design requirements list.

Name	Company	Type	Speed	Sample	Cost	Requirements	Application	Picture
dotLab	Alexa	real time Immuno Assay	15 - 90 min	Blood	tbd	100-240V, 250W
Patterned Paper	Diagnostics for All	Immuno Assay	10 min	Blood	tbd	none	Liver test in development
Malaria Pf/Pv Detect	InBios	Immuno Assay	10 min	Serum	tbd	Centrifuge	Malaria
OraQuick	OraSure	Immuno Assay	40 min	Salvia	tbd	none	HIV
Handheld Analyzer	Claros	Immuno Assay	15 min	Blood	$100 per device	none	HIV, syphilis and anemia in development