Meridian Bioscience

The firm's diagnostics revenues decreased 9 percent to $33.4 million, and life sciences revenues increased 7 percent to $17.4 million.

The company's platform and assay use fluorescent lateral flow technology to detect Helicobacter pylori antigens in human stool samples.

Of the 27 companies in the index, 14 firms' stocks were down, while 13 companies' share prices increased.

Within the company's diagnostics segment, revenues for molecular assays in particular declined 21 percent year over year.

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The company drew $49 from the credit facility to repay an earlier outstanding loan and expects to draw another $27 million to, in part, pay for its acquisition of GenePOC.

The test is the fourth assay on the firm's Revogene system and it detects five common genetic causes of drug resistance.

Overall, the share prices for 18 of the index's 27 companies fell month over month. Exact Sciences was the only firm whose share price improved in the double digits.