Team:Amplino/Solution/Competition

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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) UNITAID Malaria TechnologyLandscape.png

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