Siemens Healthineers said Monday that it has secured a three-year, $5.5 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop a next-generation sequencing-based test to guide antimicrobial treatments in sepsis patients.

EliTechGroup announced on Thursday that it has received certification under Europe's In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations for multiple infectious disease tests.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sarawak Infectious Disease Centre (SIDC) in East Malaysia.

Streck announced on Monday that its MDx-Chex quality controls have received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration.

T2 Biosystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTOO), a leader in the rapid detection of sepsis-causing pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the T2Biothreat™ Panel. The FDA 510(k) clearance allows the company to immediately begin marketing and selling the T2Biothreat Panel in the U.S. market.

Danaher on Tuesday announced that it will provide Cepheid's tuberculosis test to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, as well as to less-developed countries eligible for Cepheid's Global Access Program, at cost.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Nanopore) and leading China-based diagnostic companies, Zheijiang Digena Diagnostic Technology Co. Ltd (Digena) and Wuhan Dgensee Clinical Laboratory Co., Ltd (Dgensee), today announced a series of strategic collaborations that aim to bring nanopore sequencing technology and instruments to the clinical market in China.

On March 30 2023, Kalorama Information indicates that the global IVD market is now over $124 billion, with operations in more than 20 key healthcare and medical areas, such as infectious disease immunoassays, POC, molecular microbiology, clinical chemistry, etc.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $4.6 million contract to Sorrento Therapeutics to develop an in vitro diagnostic testing platform for biodefense, antimicrobial-resistant infections, and emerging infectious diseases, the firm said Tuesday.

T2 Biosystems said on Friday that it is collaborating with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to implement and evaluate the firm's T2Bacteria Panel in clinical settings.