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BACcel system diagnostic data

July 9, 2012 7:00 AM UTC

A study in 56 spiked blood culture samples showed that Accelr8's BACcel rapid diagnostic system had 100% sensitivity and 94% specificity for detecting multi-drug resistant clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. Furthermore, Accelr8 said the results were available within 3 hours. Data were presented at the American Society of Microbiology meeting in San Francisco. Accelr8 previously reported data from a pilot trial analyzing 77 bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples from 35 ICU patients at high-risk of developing pneumonia showing that BACcel had 86% sensitivity and 97% specificity for detecting any of the 3 target bacterial organisms - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter species (see BioCentury, May 23, 2011). ...