Microbial Identification Market

Industry Overview

The global microbial identification market is expected to grow from USD 3.68 billion in 2023 to USD 11.25 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 11.82% during the forecast period ranging from 2025 to 2030.

Microbial identification helps in identifying microbes and microorganisms in healthcare more accurately and conclusively. It helps in diagnosing infectious diseases and designing appropriate care plans. It also helps in monitoring the effectiveness of different medical interventions. Apart from healthcare, it is also useful in food production to detect harmful pathogens and ensuring safety. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in environmental science helping in assessing the health of the ecosystem and understand the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycles.

The global microbial identification market is growing at rapid rate due to the growing occurrence infectious diseases and rapid technological improvement. There are different product and services that contribute to the market and the growing demand for these instruments in the forecast period will facilitate widespread usage of these products, thereby facilitating the market growth

Elevated price of automated microbial identification systems and complicated regulatory frameworks are the major challenges for the growth of microbial identification market. However, the growing awareness about food and drug safety practices among the major players in the respective industries as well as the government and local agencies offer significant growth opportunities to the market.

Market Segmentation

Insight by Product and Services

The global microbial identification market is divided by products and services into instruments, services and consumables. The instruments segment is expected to grow at high rate due to widespread usage of instruments and advancements in technology. In addition, the consumables segment will account for the larger market share due to user friendly operative principles of orthodox microbial identification methods.

Insight by Method

The global microbial identification market is divided by methods or platforms into genotypic methods, phenotypic methods and proteomics-based methods. the higher cost-effectiveness, ease of use, and capability to deliver fast outcomes results in higher acceptance of the phenotypic methods across different fields thereby propelling its growth ore than the other segments.

Insight by Application

Different applications split the global microbial identification market into diagnostic and pharmaceutical applications, environmental applications, food and beverage testing, cosmetics and personal care products testing, and others. Out of these segments, the diagnostic and pharmaceutical application segment will grow more during the forecast period due to the growing safety concerns and occurrence of infectious diseases.

Insight by End User

The global microbial identification market is also divided by different end users into beverage manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organization, hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and blood banks, food manufacturing companies and others. Out of all these segments, the hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and blood banks sector will grow more due to higher occurrence of infectious diseases.

Insight by Technology

Different types of technologies also divided the global microbial identification market into mass spectrometry, PCR, microarrays, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and other segments. Out of all these segments, the PCR segment will grow more during the forecast period due to widespread adoption, extraordinary precision, high speed, and versatility in detecting and identifying microorganisms. The NGS segment will also grow at a high rate due to its ability to sequencing genomes even at the strain level.

Global Microbial Identification Market Report Coverage

Industry Dynamics

Industry Trends

One of the most notable trends of the global microbial identification market is the growing focus on and adoption of MALDI TOF based applications in identification. Another notable trend is the shift from phenotypic to genotypic identification techniques. In addition, there has been a continuous development drive for new and improved methods for identifying microorganisms as well as a growing prevalence of infectious diseases and rise of antibiotic resistance.

Growth Drivers

One of the most important growth factors of the global microbial identification market is the growing concern over food safety as well as higher demand for drugs that would cure infectious diseases. In addition, the growing government initiatives and funding to promote microbial identification and the advancements in different identification techniques of microbes have also fueled the market growth. Apart from that, the growing initiatives by different organizations to identify and restrict antimicrobial-resistant species, rising healthcare expenditure, improving healthcare infrastructure in emerging economies, and rise in bioterrorism surveillance will also facilitate the growth for the microbial identification market.

Challenges

The growth of the global microbial identification market is hindered significantly by the strict regulatory measures that offers an advantage to the established players but prevents entry of new players to the market. In addition, the high cost involved in adopting this technology and use of the products and services prevent new players to enter the market and thereby restricts its widespread expansion.

Opportunities

The growth opportunities for the global microbial identification market are presented by the rapid technological developments in this field. Significant opportunities for growth are also presented by the higher funding in research and development activities by the major players in the industry to introduce automation to reduce preparatory work and facilitate high-capacity analyses across a large number of strains.

Geographic Overview

North America contributes a larger share to the microbial identification market due to the higher adoption and usage of microbial techniques for research in the region. In addition, the growing occurrence of infectious diseases, rising safety concerns, higher incidents of foodborne infections, and rapid technological developments in microbial identification products will also propel the market growth during the forecast period.

The Asia-Pacific market will grow at rate due to rise in need for microbial identification, growing occurrence of infectious diseases, improving healthcare infrastructure, and rising healthcare expenditure.

Competitive Insight

Key players in the microbial identification market are catering the demand of these devices by investing on technologically advanced products in their product portfolio across the globe. Becton, Dickinson and Company, Biomérieux S.A., Bruker Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Shimadzu Corporation, Danaher Corporation, VWR Corporation, Merck KGaA, Eurofins Scientific S.E., Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. and Wickham Laboratories Ltd are the key players offering microbial identification.

bioMerieux SA is a French multinational biotechnology company founded and headquartered in France, close to Lyon. bioMerieux SA is present in 44 countries and serves more than 160 countries through a large network of distributors.

Bruker Corporation is an American manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis.

Recent Developments by Key Players

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has introduced the new LCMS RX series of triple quadrupole mass spectrometry instruments. These advanced systems are supported by integrated hardware and software technologies to ensure reliable and robust results at lower operating costs, even in the most challenging and dynamic laboratory environments.

Bruker Applied Mass Spectrometry Division Showcases High-Performance Solutions for Research and Analysis in Applied Laboratories. The new EVOQ DART-TQ mass spectrometer simplifies high-throughput testing with its integrated DART ion source, eliminating the need for upfront chromatography. It provides a fast solution for routine food and environmental testing, with a 20-second analysis time per sample. 

The Microbial Identification Market report offers a comprehensive market segmentation analysis along with an estimation for the forecast period 2025–2030.

Segments Covered in the Report 

• By Product and Services
  • Instruments
  • Services
  • Consumables
• By Method
  • Genotypic methods
  • Phenotypic methods
  • Proteomics-based methods
• By Application
  • Diagnostic and pharmaceutical applications
  • Environmental applications
  • Food and beverage testing
  • Cosmetics and personal care products testing
  • Others
• By End User
  • Beverage manufacturing companies
  • Pharmaceutical companies
  • Contract research organization
  • Hospitals
  • Diagnostic laboratories
  • Blood banks
  • Food manufacturing companies
  • Others

Region Covered in the Report

• North America
  • U.S.
  • Canada
  • Mexico
• Europe
  • Germany
  • U.K.
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Russia
  • Rest of Europe
• Asia-Pacific (APAC)
  • China
  • Japan
  • India
  • South Korea
  • Rest of Asia-Pacific
• Rest of the World (RoW)
  • Brazil
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • U.A.E.
  • Other Countries

Source: VynZ Research

Source: VynZ Research