FDA clears T2Bacteria Panel
May 30, 2018—The FDA cleared T2 Biosystems’ T2Bacteria Panel for the direct detection of bacterial species in human whole blood specimens from patients with suspected bloodstream infections. The T2Bacteria Panel provides detection of five common sepsis-causing bacterial pathogens directly from a whole blood specimen in approximately five hours. “This was more than 2.5 days faster than blood-culture-dependent tests,” T2 Biosystems said in a press release, as demonstrated in the 1,427 patient trial conducted at 11 hospitals in the U.S. (Nguyen