ContraFect Corporation Showcases CF-301 at ICAAC 2014 Meeting in Washington, D.C.

YONKERS, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 2, 2014) - ContraFect Corporation (NASDAQ: CFRXU), a biotechnology company focused on protein and antibody therapeutic products for life-threatening infectious diseases, is pleased to announce that ContraFect has been selected to give an oral presentation at the 54^th ICAAC conference (the meeting of the American Society for Microbiology -- "ICAAC, the premier conference on antimicrobial agents and infectious diseases, showcases the latest-breaking science and lectures from top researchers around the world" -- http://www.icaac.org/). This year's ICAAC conference will take place September 5-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

ContraFect's scientists will present the most recent findings on CF-301, an anti-infective agent with a novel mechanism of action that demonstrates potent activity against all drug-resistant and drug-sensitive forms of Staphylococcus aureus ("Staph"). The Company's presentation, titled, "Efficacy of Single-Dose Lysin CF-301 in Combination with Vancomycin (VAN) or Daptomycin (DAP) in Experimental Endocarditis (IE) Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)," will be presented by Michael Wittekind, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of ContraFect, in an oral format on September 9, 2014 at 10:45 AM in Room 144 A.

"We are delighted to present our latest data on CF-301 to the infectious disease community at the 54^th annual ICAAC conference," stated Julia P. Gregory, chief executive officer of ContraFect. "This study illustrates ContraFect's new alternative approach to treating the life-threatening infectious disease of Staph bacteremia, demonstrating the powerful combination of CF-301 and standard-of-care antibiotics in this well established model of infectious endocarditis," commented Dr. Wittekind.

About CF-301:

CF-301 is a bacteriophage lysin, which is an enzyme that digests bacterial cell walls, killing bacteria immediately upon contact. CF-301 has specificity for Staphylococcus aureus (Staph), and Group A and Group B streptococci, and has displayed activity against all forms of Staph, including methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant isolates (VISA/VRSA). The initial indication being pursued for CF-301 is Staph bacteremia, a blood stream infection that causes 30,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone.