March 28, 2022—Accelerate Diagnostics launched the Accelerate Arc system for rapid and accurate microbial identification of positive blood cultures. The system, comprising the Accelerate Arc module and blood culture kit, is designed for laboratories that use MALDI.
The Arc module is a novel application of inline centrifugal and sample preparation techniques, the company says, that provides a suspension of cleaned and concentrated microbial cells, which, with the blood culture kit, allows for direct transfer to a MALDI spotting plate. The system eliminates the need for batching multiple specimen tests and overnight culture incubation. The load-and-go workflow has a hands-on time of two to three minutes.
“I am excited to be launching this new system as promised and with strong early performance data. The total cost to rapidly identify organisms from positive blood cultures could be at least 50 percent less than what you’re paying today for a rapid molecular ID solution,” Jack Phillips, president and CEO of Accelerate Diagnostics, said in a press statement. “When you think of the extreme pressure that labs are under today, the Arc is a fast and inexpensive diagnostic tool which frees up valuable technician time by automating the MALDI workflow.”
The Arc is intended for research use only and is not for use in diagnostic procedures.