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VITEK 2 Receives FDA Clearance for Automated Omadacycline Susceptibility Testing

A five-site clinical evaluation demonstrated that the VITEK 2 omadacycline test meets FDA and ISO performance criteria for Enterobacterales, achieving 97.9% essential agreement and 94.3% categorical agreement. The test received FDA 510(k) clearance for skin infections caused by E. cloacae and K. pneumoniae and for community-acquired pneumonia caused by K. pneumoniae, providing laboratories with an automated alternative to manual broth microdilution.

The original study

Multicenter Clinical Performance Evaluation of Omadacycline Susceptibility Testing of

Authors
Csiki-Fejer E, Traczewski M, Procop GW, Davis TE, Hackel M, Dwivedi HP, et al.
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Type
Multicenter Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PMID
37162363
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Original abstract

We present the first performance evaluation results for omadacycline on the VITEK 2 and VITEK 2 Compact Systems (bioMérieux, Inc.). The trial was conducted at four external sites and one internal site. All sites were in the United States, geographically dispersed as follows: Indianapolis, IN; Schaumburg, IL; Wilsonville, OR; Cleveland, OH; and Hazelwood, MO. In this multisite study, omadacycline was tested against 858 Enterobacterales on the VITEK 2 antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) Gram-negative (GN) card, and the results were compared to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute broth microdilution (BMD) reference method. The results were analyzed and are presented as essential agreement (EA), category agreement (CA), minor error (mE) rates, major error (ME) rates, and very major error (VME) rates following the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and International Standards Organization (ISO) performance criteria requirements. Omadacycline has susceptibility testing interpretive criteria (breakpoints) established by the FDA only; nevertheless, the analysis was also performed using the ISO acceptance criteria to satisfy the registration needs of countries outside the United States. The analysis following FDA criteria (including only Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae) showed the following performance: EA = 97.9% (410/419), CA = 94.3% (395/419), VME = 2% (1/51), with no ME present. The performance following ISO criteria (including all Enterobacterales tested) after error resolutions was EA = 98.1% (842/858) and CA = 96.9% (831/858). No ME or VME were observed. The VITEK 2 test met the ISO and FDA criteria of ≥ 95% reproducibility, and ≥ 95% quality control (QC) results within acceptable ranges for QC organisms. In June 2022, the omadacycline VITEK 2 test received FDA 510(k) clearance (K213931) FDA as a diagnostic device to be used in the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections caused by E. cloacae and K. pneumoniae, and for treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia caused by K. pneumoniae. The new VITEK 2 AST-GN omadacycline test provides an alternative to the BMD reference method testing and increases the range of automated diagnostic tools available for determining omadacycline MICs in Enterobacterales.