T2 Biosystems 1Q 2024
May 6, 2024
increases by up to 8% for each hour of delayed, targeted antimicrobial treatment. As we have discussed, T2 Biosystems has developed and commercialized the only FDA-cleared products able to detect sepsis-causing pathogens directly from blood, in just 3-5 hours, without the need to wait days for a positive blood culture.
Competitive products – like those marketed by bioMerieux, BD, and Accelerate – first require a positive blood culture, which can take days. So, when those competitors claim that they can produce species identification or antibiotic susceptibility (“AST”) results in 1-3 hours, it is after they wait 1-5 days for a positive blood culture. And when blood culture produces false negative results, due to lack of sensitivity or inhibition due to prior antimicrobial treatment, those culture-dependent technologies provide little to no value.
A meta-analysis of 14 controlled studies, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, compared T2 Biosystems’ sepsis tests to blood culture-based diagnostics, and showed that T2 Biosystems’ products provided: faster time to detection (e.g., species identification 77 hours faster), faster targeted therapy (e.g., patients testing positive with T2 Biosystems receiving targeted antimicrobial therapy 42 hours faster), and reduced length of stay (e.g., 5.0 fewer days in the ICU and 4.8 fewer days in the hospital).
Thanks to the strong efforts of our team during the first quarter of 2024, we made considerable progress across our three corporate priorities: 1) accelerating our sales, 2) enhancing our operations, and 3) advancing our pipeline.
Starting with our first corporate priority — accelerating our sales.
In the first quarter of 2024, our team achieved sepsis product revenue of $2.1 million, representing growth of 25% compared to the prior year period. Our team also achieved sequential quarterly growth of 23% compared to the fourth quarter of 2023. The growth in the first quarter was led by sales of our T2Candida Panel globally, and sales of our T2Resistance Panel internationally. We added 8 T2Dx Instrument contracts, continuing to grow our installed base, with 5 sold in international markets and 3 in the U.S. market.
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