CLEVELAND, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Biosciences, Inc., an emerging leader in clinical diagnostics products, announced that the company has become the first to offer minocycline and telavancin on IVD-labeled microbroth dilution susceptibility plates. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared TREK-brand Sensititre MIC plates for testing minocycline against Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial isolates, as well as telavancin against Gram positive bacterial isolates and fastidious Streptococcus sp. isolates. The FDA has also broadened the tigecycline clearance on the Sensititre platform to include Streptococcus pneumoniae testing.
Minocycline and telavancin are available for immediate use on Sensititre custom IVD formats and the company plans to add the drugs to several of its standard IVD-labeled plates in the coming months. Tigecycline is available now on Sensititre Streptococcus spp. MIC plate, as well as on custom formats.
Commenting on Magellan's strong track record with the FDA, Dr. Uchida said, "Over the past two years, we have extended our portfolio of FDA-cleared products, introducing a number of new IVD plates, including a Gram-positive plate used in MRSA detection, which is FDA-cleared for D-Test and Cefoxitin screening, and YeastOne(R) plates available with five IVD-cleared antifungal compounds: itraconazole, fluconazole, 5-flucytosine, voriconazole, and caspofungin. To meet expanding customer needs, we also continue to offer new plates for research use only (RUO)."
Better Dx = Better Rx - About Magellan (www.magellanbio.com)
Founded in 2004, Magellan's innovative technologies make diagnostic testing easier, more cost-effective, and less labor intensive. The company's products deliver the timely information that clinicians need to make appropriate treatment decisions and improve outcomes for patients. They include LeadCare(R)-brand rapid point-of-care systems to screen children and adults for lead poisoning; TREK-brand microbiology products for blood culture and susceptibility testing that help in the global effort to prevent MRSA and other drug-resistant infections; as well as Dynex(R) -brand automated ELISA processing systems for a wide variety of immunoassays - from infectious disease to autoimmune and food-safety testing. Magellan has approximately 290 employees worldwide.
CONTACT: Caroline Grossman of Magellan Biosciences, Inc., +1-781-771-5579,
cgrossman@magellanbio.com
Web site: http://www.magellanbio.com/
