Publications

Rapid pathogen identification and phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility directly from urine specimens

Peer-Reviewed Article

Read the peer-reviewed article, originally featured in Scientific Reports, that discusses technology and an automated platform that identify (ID) Urinary Tract Infection pathogens in 45 min and provide phenotypic AST results in less than 5 h from urine specimens without colony isolation.

A Rapid, Accurate, Single Molecule Counting Method Detects Clostridium difficile Toxin B in Stool Samples

Peer-Reviewed Article

Read the peer-reviewed article, originally featured in Scientific Reports, that discusses the new immunoassay-based technology capable of counting single target molecules using digital imaging without magnification.

First Light Developing Single-Molecule Counting Tech to Detect C. Diff. Toxins

News Article

Read the 360 DX article that discusses First Light’s use of advanced digital imaging technology to detect C.Diff Toxins.

First Light Developing Rapid Syndromic ID/AST System Using Digital Imaging

News Article

Read the 360 DX article that discusses First Light’s use of advanced digital imaging technology to perform ID/AST testing.

Other Relevant Publications

A Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs) and Algorithms Including NAATs for the Diagnosis of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in Adults

Published in American Society for Microbiology Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Systematic review that evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of laboratory testing algorithms that include nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) to detect the presence of C. difficile.