Good day!

We're working on a research project involving the identification of Staphylococcus species. We planned to use the coagulase test to help identify the Staphylococcus species, but this is quite pricey. We've encountered the RAPIDEC Staph product by Biomerieux (https://biomerieuxdirect.com/industry/Bacteriology/ID-AST-Manual/ID-AST-API/ID-Manual/Rapidec-Rapidec/RAPIDEC%26reg-STAPH/p/03300) and research partner and I have several questions:

1) We can order product 03300 and this seems more price-effective. Does the RAPIDEC Staph come with everything needed in the test, or do we need to purchase other reagents/kits to be able to use it? If we need to purchase more reagents/kits, this might make it quite expensive as well.

2) Are there online resources on how this test kit is used?

Suggestions of other kits in identifying Staphylococcus (that are hopefully not too expensive) are much appreciated.

Thank you very much.