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I don’t have any info on the price for AMR kits

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However, I was doing some research on AMR and here is what I have found so far:

• The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Market Size was valued at USD 5.61 Billion in 2022. The Market Size is projected to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% from 2022 to 2032
  and is expected to reach USD 9.92 Billion by 2032 Asia Pacific is expected to Grow the fastest during the forecast period [Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Market Size – 2032.]

• This WHO report on AMR has two sections – one dedicated to TB and another to other drug-resistant bacterial infections. What I infer is TB has much more importance than others bacterial infections [Prioritization of pathogens to guide discovery, research and development of new antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infections, including tuberculosis]

• Drug-resistant TB is now estimated to be responsible for 1/3 of all deaths due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

• Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB, MTB) complex. A drug resistant strain is defined as resistance to at least one primary drug used to treat tuberculosis. A multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) is defined as resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most effective anti-TB drugs, and an extensively drug resistant TB (XDR-TB) is defined as a MDR-TB strain with additional resistance to any fluoroquinolone and at least one additional Group A drug. In 2022, it was estimated that approximately 4% of incident new TB cases in the world had MDR/RR-TB1.

• MTB RIF/INH resistance test provides identification of rifampicin (RIF) resistance and isoniazid (INH) resistance targeting rpoB, katG and inhA genes

• The world learned of the dangers of antimicrobial resistance with the rise of hospital-acquired infections, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is a bacterial infection which causes the same infection as SA, however it is dangerous due to its resistance to many antibiotics that successfully treat normal SA.

• 3B BlackBio Dx has the following AMR kits available [see their website]. “3” and “4” are related to TB. Good to see the focus on TB.
  (1) UTI AST Panel Kit
  (2) MRSA Detection Kit
  (3) Rif/INH MTB Drug Resistant Detection Kit
  (4) Rifampicin Resistant MTB Kit

• For Rif/INH MTB Drug Resistant Detection Kit I could find only Abbott and Roche having the kits apart from 3B [https://www.molecular.abbott/int/en/products/infectious-disease/realtime-mtb-rif-inh-resistance , cobas® MTB-RIF/INH]

• For Rifampicin Resistant MTB Kit I see Molbio and Cephid have kits in addition to Abbott and Roche [Molbio Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra]

For MRSA and AST I am still on with my research