Curetis

OpGen also reported full-year growth was driven by revenue increases for its Acuitas AMR Gene Panel and Acuitas Lighthouse informatics platform.

OpGen, which is acquiring Curetis, said that combined revenue for both companies would have been about $6 million in 2019 had the deal been completed last year.

The company also inked a deal with an investment bank to publicly offer from time to time up to $4.2 million of its stock.

The deal with Quaphaco includes minimum Unyvero A50 instrument and infectious disease test cartridge purchases of €1.9 million over the initial three-year term.

A subsidiary of Curetis, a firm recently merged with OpGen, Ares will use BGI technology to sequence samples in Europe.

Luminex got the nod for a qualitative test used to simultaneously detect and identify nucleic acids from respiratory viruses and bacteria.

The LRT BAL panel detects a wide spectrum of clinically relevant causative agents, such as atypical pathogens and antibiotic resistance markers.

The company also said that it expects a clearance decision from US regulators in the near term on a lower respiratory tract infection test that runs on its Unyvero system.

The German molecular diagnostics firm is preparing for its merger with US-based OpGen, which is slated to close in the first quarter of next year.

The company continues to move toward its planned merger with German diagnostics firm Curetis, which is expected to close early next year.