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Items Tagged with 'antimicrobial resistance'

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MHRA offers clarity for bacteriophage development, licensing

June 9, 2025
By Nuala Moran
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The U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued its first official guidance on how to develop bacteriophages as licensed medicinal products. This covers personalized phage therapies designed for specific patients – at present the only form in which they are available – but also is relevant to the development of off-the-shelf products for treating common infections.
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FDA clears Biomérieux’s Vitek Compact antimicrobial resistance system

March 25, 2025
By Shani Alexander
Biomérieux SA recently received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its Vitek Compact Pro, a system for microorganism identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing. The company hopes that the system will help clinical laboratories combat antimicrobial resistance and diagnose infectious diseases as well as support industrial laboratories in identifying contaminants to ensure consumer safety.
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Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation and Wellcome set sights on antimicrobial resistance

Feb. 13, 2025
The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation and Wellcome have announced the launch of the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI), a $50 million investment that will focus on combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) caused by a specific range of bacteria that are among the leading contributors to AMR-associated deaths.
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Microplate Dx touts rapid POC antibiotic susceptibility testing

Dec. 2, 2024
By Simon Kerton
In what represents the first patenting from Glasgow-based Microplate Dx Ltd., three of its co-founders describe a system for diagnosing microbial infections and performing rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing, enabling quicker and more precise determination of effective antibiotics.
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Ifast raises $6.5M for technology to fight antimicrobial resistance​

Nov. 11, 2024
By Shani Alexander
Ifast Diagnostics Ltd. raised $6.5 million (£5 million) in seed funding to bring its rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform to the market. The company’s technology is vital in the fight against antimicrobial resistance and the funds will be used to conduct clinical trials to get the product to the market in the U.K., U.S. and EU, CEO Toby King, told BioWorld.
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Ifast raises $6.5M for technology to fight antimicrobial resistance​

Nov. 8, 2024
By Shani Alexander
Ifast Diagnostics Ltd. raised $6.5 million (£5 million) in seed funding to bring its rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform to the market. The company’s technology is vital in the fight against antimicrobial resistance and the funds will be used to conduct clinical trials to get the product to the market in the U.K., U.S. and EU, CEO Toby King, told BioWorld.
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm

Adcom tries to balance risk for the many with benefit for the few

Sep. 9, 2024
By Mari Serebrov
With antimicrobial resistance growing to many first-line antibiotics, a key concern in the U.S. FDA’s approving an oral penem like Iterum Therapeutics International Ltd.’s tablet combining sulopenem etzadroxil and probenecid is that it could become a first-line, go-to drug in treating uncomplicated urinary tract infections and, possibly, more serious infections off-label.
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Adcom next stop for Iterum amid AMR concerns

Sep. 5, 2024
By Mari Serebrov
After receiving a complete response letter from the U.S. FDA more than three years ago and conducting another phase III trial, Iterum Therapeutics plc is preparing to make its case before an advisory committee Sept. 9 for sulopenem etzadroxil/probenecid as an oral treatment option for women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections caused by specific microorganisms.
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Thrixen develops diagnostic test to detect bacterial vs. viral infections

June 21, 2024
By Tamra Sami
On the heels of a $7 million seed round, Singapore-based medical technology startup Thrixen Pte Ltd. is accelerating development of its diagnostic technology platform that has the potential to perform multiplex diagnostic tests at the point of care.
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm
Infection

Aurobac Therapeutics outlines plans to target bacterial infections and antimicrobial resistance

June 4, 2024
Aurobac Therapeutics SAS, a biopharmaceutical company founded by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biomérieux SA and Evotec SE, has announced its strategy to target bacterial infections, antimicrobial resistance and their consequences in acute hospital settings, such as hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia and sepsis.
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