Bacdec replaces the 24-hour blood culture bottleneck with a 3-hour sample prep — enabling any nucleic acid test to run the same day the blood is drawn.
Sepsis — a bloodstream infection that escalates into organ failure — kills more hospital patients than any other condition. Over 27 million cases occur each year worldwide, with nearly a third ending in death. Every hour without the right antibiotic increases mortality by 10 percent.
Despite this urgency, the diagnostic standard has not meaningfully changed in decades. Blood culture takes 24–48 hours, is often performed off-site, and while waiting, clinicians must prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics that target only about 80% of likely pathogens — leaving the rest to chance.
Newer rapid tests exist, but most are limited to a narrow panel of organisms, locked to proprietary hardware, or still require a positive blood culture before they can work — adding the same delay they were meant to eliminate.
Bacdec selectively lyses host cells while preserving intact bacterial and fungal cells from whole blood. The result: sufficient pathogen biomass for any nucleic acid test — in approximately three hours instead of twenty-four.
Reduces the 24-hour culture step to approximately three hours of automated sample preparation.
Validated in multiple whole-blood studies to match the detection accuracy of standard culture methods.
Works upstream of any nucleic acid test: qPCR, NGS, syndromic panels. No proprietary lock-in.
Protected intellectual property with granted patents in both the European Union and the United States.
27-step protocol designed for cartridge or robotic workflows. Seeking hardware partners for integration.
Detects any bacterial or fungal cause of sepsis — not limited to a manufacturer-defined panel.
Multiple whole-blood studies conducted over four years with leading Israeli medical institutions have confirmed culture-equivalent accuracy with approximately 90% reduction in preparation time.
We’re seeking hardware and distribution partners to bring automated same-day sepsis preparation to clinical labs worldwide. Drop us a message and we’ll be in touch.