The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Pattern Bioscience’s Urine ID/AST Panel, a same-day assay for pathogen ID and antimicrobial susceptibility directly from uncultured urine specimens.
Early use of rapid sepsis diagnostics could prevent 36,200 deaths and 84,400 sepsis cases annually in the US, according to a multi-country health economic analysis announced by bioMérieux and conducted by the Office of Health Economics.
The exsig Mag RapidBead Pro kit features a four-step workflow that reduces extraction time to under 20 minutes.
Bruker enhanced diagnostic solutions in microbial identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, early sepsis diagnostics, and more.
Avails Medical, a developer of antibiotic susceptibility testing tech, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. FDA for its new eQUANT system.
COPAN Diagnostics' new colony selection software—PhenoMATRIX TAG—automatically chooses isolated colonies on plated media for picking.
Hardy Diagnostics unveiled a chromogenic biplate designed to help detect and identify CRE and ESBL producing bacteria.