TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) an innovator of rapid in vitro diagnostics in microbiology, announced the successful completion of its WAVE pre-clinical trial. The Accelerate WAVE system is designed to deliver rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing ("AST") directly from positive blood culture ("PBC") bottles and bacterial isolated colonies ("Isolates") to report accurate results within 4.5 hours, on average.

It is estimated by the World Health Organization, Sepsis affects an estimated 49 million¹ people globally each year, causing an estimated 11 million¹ deaths of which an estimated 1.3² million are attributed to bacterial antimicrobial resistance. Additionally, Sepsis is the number one cost to the US healthcare system with an annual estimated expense of $62 billion³. By delivering rapid AST results, patients with serious infections can be put on targeted antimicrobial therapy to improve patient outcomes, cut hospital costs, and reduce antimicrobial resistance.

"We are extremely pleased to announce the goals for our WAVE pre-clinical trial were achieved with strong performance and unprecedented time-to-result of 4.5-hours, on average, along with strong instrument reliability and assay reportability," commented Jack Phillips, President and CEO of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. "With the success of the pre-clinical trial we have confidence in both our WAVE product design and the system capabilities to move to a clinical trial and in turn commercialize." Mr. Phillips continued. 

The pre-clinical trial included 1,570 WAVE results compared to Broth Microdilution ("BMD"), the reference method. The trial included an equal number of prospective patient samples and site selected challenge samples which resulted in excellent concordance between sample types. Summary performance concluded overall Essential Agreement ("EA") and Categorical Agreement ("CA") of approximately 95%. See below for a summary of performance by antibiotic class

Summary of Pre-clinical Data Performance by Antibiotic Class: 

(1) GN Organisms include: Acinetobacter baumannii, Citrobacter freundii, Citrobacter koseri, Enterobacter cloacae, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella oxytoca, Klebsiella pneumoniae. Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens. 

References:

1 Rudd KE, Johnson SC, Agesa KM, Shackelford KA, Tsoi D, Kievlan DR, Colombara DV, Ikuta KS, Kissoon N, Finfer S, Fleischmann-Struzek C, Machado FR, Reinhart KK, Rowan K, Seymour CW, Watson RS, West TE, Marinho F, Hay SI, Lozano R, Lopez AD, Angus DC, Murray CJL, Naghavi M. Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990-2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet. 2020 Jan 18;395(10219):200-211. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32989-7.

2 Murray CJ. Global Burden of Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance in 2019: A Systematic Analysis. The Lancet. 2022;399(10325):629-655. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02724-0.

3 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7017950/)

About the Accelerate WAVE System

The Accelerate WAVE system is intended to deliver same-shift antibiotic susceptibility test results enabling antimicrobial stewardship teams and clinicians alike to tailor therapy for patients with serious infections in a timely manner. Getting the patient on optimal therapy, as shown with numerous peer-reviewed publications, not only reduces morbidity associated with bacteremia but also reduces healthcare costs.  

The WAVE system will offer a comprehensive test menu and incorporates essential features to optimize workflow across laboratories. With full random access for continuous sample loading, the scalability of the Wave system addresses the needs of various health care settings from small community hospitals to large academic centers and reference labs. The WAVE System employs novel holographic imaging technology to determine bacterial growth and morphology changes in real time, enabling same-shift, quantitative susceptibility test results. 

About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AXDX) 

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antibiotic resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno^® system and Accelerate PhenoTest^® BC kit combine several technologies aimed at reducing the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for deadly infections. The FDA cleared system and kit fully automate the sample preparation steps to report phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility results in approximately 7 hours direct from positive blood cultures. Recent external studies indicate the solution offers results 1–2 days faster than existing methods, enabling clinicians to optimize antibiotic selection and dosage specific to the individual patient days earlier. 

The "ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS" and "ACCELERATE PHENO" and "ACCELERATE PHENOTEST" and "ACCELERATE ARC" and "ACCELERATE WAVE" diamond shaped logos and marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. 

For more information about the company, its products and technology, or recent publications, visit https://acceleratediagnostics.com/. 

Forward-Looking Statements

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