T2 Biosystems Achieves Key Milestone with 250,000th Novel Sepsis Test Shipped Globally
TTOO 12.17.2024

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A meta-analysis of 14 controlled studies, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, compared T2 Biosystems’ sepsis tests to blood culture-based diagnostics, and showed that T2 Biosystems’ products provided: faster time to detection (e.g., species identification 77 hours faster), faster targeted therapy (e.g., patients testing positive with
“We are honored that hospitals have chosen to use our direct-from-blood diagnostic tests to care for hundreds of thousands of patients with bloodstream infections or sepsis, enabling clinicians to achieve faster targeted antimicrobial treatment,” stated John Sperzel, Chairman and CEO of T2 Biosystems. “Alternative diagnostics that that are used to identify sepsis-causing pathogens and antibiotic resistance first require a positive blood culture, which can take days, and it is well-understood that the risk of death increases by up to eight percent per hour of delayed targeted antimicrobial treatment.”
The Company’s competitors that market FDA-cleared products to detect sepsis-causing pathogens and antibiotic resistance are currently dependent on positive blood culture results. When these firms market that their products provide species identification results in 1-3 hours, or antibiotic susceptibility results in 7 hours, it is important to understand that these turnaround times are only after waiting 1-5 days for a positive blood culture. Further, if blood culture produces false negative results due to poor sensitivity, these blood culture-dependent diagnostics provide little to no value.
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