Table 1.

Commercial Francisella tularensis detection kit.

Product	Method	Company	Target	Characteristics	Reference
VIRAPID® TULAREMIA	LFA a	Vircell	LPS b	99.1% sensitivity and 98.6% specificity	(Kılıç et al., 2012; Chaignat et al., 2014)
BADD Tularemia Biowarfare Detection Test Kit	LFA a	ADVNT biotechnologies	Not reported	1.48 x 106 cfu/mL of LoD c	https://advnt.org
Raid™ 8	LFA a	Alexeter Technologies	Not reported	1.6 x 106 cfu/mL of LoD c	https://www.alexeter.com
Tularemia BioThreat Alert® Kit	LFA a	Tetracore	Not reported	1.0 x 107~ 1 x108 cfu/mL of LoD c	(Pillai et al., 2020)
SERION ELISA classic Francisella tularensis	ELISA	SERION diagnostics	LPS b	86.3% sensitivity and 95.5% specificity	(Yanes et al., 2018)
Tularemia test kit Biotoxis	RT-PCR	Bertin	Not reported	90.32~96.55% sensitivity, 1,000 cfu/L LoD/49 copies	(Hennebique et al., 2020)
Francisella tularensis RT-PCR Kit	RT-PCR	BioPerfectus	Not reported	5 copies/reaction of LoD c	https://www.bioperfectus.com

^aLateral Flow Assay.

^bLipopolysaccharide.

^cLimit of Detection.