OpGen Announces Publication of Results from Major Clinical Study Using Unyvero Hospitalized Pneumonia (HPN) Panel in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen” or “the Company”), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious disease, announced today the release of a new peer-reviewed journal publication from a major investigator-initiated, multicenter, randomized, controlled and interventional trial conducted at two tertiary care centers in Switzerland (University Hospital of Basel and Kantonsspital St. Gallen). The trial demonstrates that using Unyvero HPN panel in hospitalized pneumonia patients for the examination of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in combination with antibiotic stewardship decreases the duration of inappropriate antibiotic therapy of hospitalized patients with pneumonia at risk for Gram-negative bacteria and supports antibiotic de-escalation in 66% of patients.