Late-Breaking Data and Clinician Reviews on Now FDA-cleared T2Bacteria Panel Underscore Sepsis Prevention Opportunities at ASM Microbe 2018
“The strong customer data and conclusions expressed by clinicians at ASM Microbe on T2Bacteria are encouraging and allows us to further strengthen the momentum generated by
For the first time in the U.S., the T2Bacteria pivotal clinical trial data was presented, representing a large study of over 1,400 patient samples collected across 11 hospital and hospital systems across the U.S. The investigators concluded:
- T2Bacteria demonstrated excellent accuracy, including overall sensitivity of 90% and overall average specificity of 98%.
- T2Bacteria detected 69 patient infections that were not detected by the concurrent blood culture.
- Blood culture species identification results took an average of 3 days while T2Bacteria took an average of only 5.4 hours in the clinical trial, providing results more than 2.5 days faster.
- 66% of patients in the clinical trial with a bloodstream infection confirmed by T2 and blood culture could have benefited from earlier appropriate antibiotics based on the rapid T2Bacteria result.
- T2Bacteria also had a noted advantage in detecting infected patients on antibiotics who were missed by blood culture.
“T2 panels afford clinicians the first direct from blood diagnostics for the detection of sepsis-causing pathogens,” said clinical trial investigator
A separate evaluation of T2Bacteria by clinicians at
- T2Bacteria detected 14 infections missed by a paired blood culture – but proven to be a true infection by other cultures.
- T2Bacteria identified every infection detected by blood culture of the target species (100% sensitivity).
- T2Bacteria was highly accurate in identifying samples without an infection, with 99% average specificity.
The authors concluded that the advantages of T2Bacteria over blood culture could make it a valuable tool to enable faster time to targeted antibiotic therapy and reduced use of unnecessary antibiotics.
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Treating bloodstream infections earlier may prevent progression to sepsis, one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and the most expensive hospital-treated condition, with costs exceeding $27 billion. Sepsis claims more lives annually than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and AIDS combined and is the most prevalent and costly cause of hospital readmissions. The pathogens that cause sepsis infections are difficult to detect and can be deadly even at very small concentrations in the bloodstream. With sepsis, one hour of delayed treatment increases mortality risk by nearly 8%.
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