Table 1.

Overview of assay characteristics as provided by the manufacturers at date of analysis

	artus	CTM v1	CTM v2	HPS	RealTime	Versant
Manufacturer	Qiagen	Roche	Roche	Roche	Abbott	Siemens
Reference standard	Acrometrix	1st WHO	2nd WHO	2nd WHO	2nd WHO	3rd WHO
Input volume (mL)	1.0	0.85	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Target region	5′-UTR
LLOQ (IU/mL)	67.6	43	15	25	12	15
LOD (IU/mL)	36.2	15	15	~9.3–16.1	12	15

LLOQ lower limit of quantification, LOD limit of detection