| ABB |
Asian Bacterial Bank, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, Korea. |
| ACAM |
Australian Collection of Antarctic Microorganisms, Cooperative Research Center for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. |
| ACCC |
Agricultural Culture Collection of China, Institute of Soil and Fertilization, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. |
| ACM |
Australian Collection of Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (same as UQM). |
| AHN |
Anaerobe Reference Laboratory, Helsinki Collection, Helsinki, Finland. |
| AHU |
Laboratory of Culture Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. |
| AJ |
Central Research Laboratories, Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Kawasaki, Japan. |
| AKU |
Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. |
| AMP |
Australian Mycological Panel. |
| ANMR |
Asian Network on Microbial Researches. |
| AS |
See CGMCC. |
| ATCC |
American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA. |
| ATHUM |
Athens Collection of Fungi, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. |
| ATU |
Department of Biotechnology, Division of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (same as FAT). |
| BCC |
BIOTEC Culture Collection, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Bangkok, Thailand. |
| BCRC |
Bioresources Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan (same as CCRC). |
| BDUN |
Department of Botany, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. |
| BRL |
Butterwick Research Laboratories, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, UK. |
| BTCC |
Biotechnology Culture Collection, Research and Development Center for Biotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong, Indonesia. |
| BUCSAV |
Biologicky Ustav, Czech Akademie Ved, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| CAIM |
Collection of Aquacultural Important Microorganisms, CIAD/Mazatlán Unit for Aquaculture and Environmental Management, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. |
| CBMAI |
Brazilian Collection of Microorganisms from the Environment and Industry, State University of Campinas, Paulinia, SP, Brazil. |
| CBS |
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands. |
| CCBAU |
Culture Collection of Beijiing Agricultural University, Beijiing, China. |
| CCEB |
Culture Collection of Entomogenous Bacteria, Institute of Entomology, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| CCF |
Culture Collection of Fungi, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| CCFC |
Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
| CCM |
Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. |
| CCMM |
Moroccan Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms, Rabat, Morocco. |
| CCOS |
Culture Collection of Switzerland, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland. |
| CCRC |
See BCRC. |
| CCT |
Colecao de Culturas Tropical, Fundacao Tropical de Pesquisas e Tecnologia "André Tosello", Campinas - SP, Brazil. |
| CCTCC |
China Center for Type Culture Collection, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. |
| CCTM |
Centre de Collection de Types Microbien, Institut de Microbiologie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. |
| CCUG |
Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Guldhedsg, Göteborg, Sweden. |
| CCY |
Culture Collection of Yeasts, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. |
| CDA |
Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada. |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA (same as NCDC). |
| CEB |
Centre d'Etudes du Bouchet, Le Bouchet, France. |
| CECT |
Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo, Universidad de València, Edificio de Investigación, Burjassot, Spain. |
| CELMS |
Collection of Environmental and Laboratory Microbial Strains, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. |
| CFBP |
Collection Francaise des Bacteries Phytopathogenes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Beaucouzé Cedex, France. |
| CGMCC |
China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (same as AS). |
| CICC |
China Center of Industrial Culture Collection, China National Research Institute of Food and Fermentation Industries, Beijing, China. |
| CIP |
Pasteur Institute Collection, Biological Resource Center of Pasteur Institute (CRBIP), Paris, France. |
| CMI |
See IMI. |
| CN |
Wellcome Collection of Bacteria, Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, UK. |
| CNCTC |
Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| CNRZ |
Centre National de Recherches Zootechniques, Jouy-en-Josas, France. |
| CSIR |
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa. |
| CSUR |
Collection de Souches de l'Unité des Rickettsies, Unités des Rickettsies, Marseille, France. |
| CUETM |
Collection Unite Ecotoxicologie Microbienne, INSERM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Nord, France. |
| DAOM |
Plant Research Institute, Department of Agriculture (Mycology), Ottawa, Canada. |
| DAR |
Plant Pathology Herbarium, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, New South Wales, Australia. |
| DBVPG |
Collection of Yeasts, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Perugia, Italy. |
| DMST |
Culture Collection for Medical Microorganism, Department of Medical Sciences, National Institute of Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand. |
| DMUR |
Department of Mycology, University of Recife, Brazil. |
| DSM |
DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany. |
| ETH |
Kultursammlungen der Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| FAT |
See ATU. |
| FDA |
US Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., USA. |
| FDC |
Forsyth Dental Center, Boston, MI, USA. |
| FERM |
Patent and Bio-Resource Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| FGSC |
Fungal Genetics Stock Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, KS, USA. |
| FIRDI |
Food Industry Research and Development Institute, HsinChu, Taiwan. |
| FMJ |
Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan. |
| FMR |
Facultad de Medicina, Reus, Tarragona, Spain. |
| FRI |
Food Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| FRR |
Division of Food Research, Food Research Laboratory, CSIRO, North Ryde, N.S.W., Australia. |
| FTK |
Forintek Culture Collection of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
| GBS |
Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea. |
| GIFU |
See GTC. |
| GTC |
Gifu Type Culture Collection, Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan. |
| HACC |
Research Laboratory, Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pimpri Poona, India. |
| HAMBI |
Culture Collection of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. |
| HKUCC |
University of Hong Kong Culture Collection, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, Hong Kong, China. |
| HSCC |
Culture Collection of the Research and Development Department, Higeta Shoyu Co., Ltd., Choshi, Chiba, Japan. |
| HUT |
HUT Culture Collection, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. |
| IAM |
IAM Culture Collection, Center for Cellular and Molecular Research, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (collection transferred to JCM). |
| IBL |
Botanical Institute, Lisbon Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| IBRC |
Iranian Biological Resources Center, Academic Center for Education Culture and Research (ACECR), Tehran, Iran. |
| IBT |
IBT Culture Collection of Fungi, Mycology Group, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. |
| ICI |
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Welwyn, Hertfordshire, UK. |
| ICMP |
International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants, Plant Diseases Division, DSIR, Auckland, New Zealand (same as PDDCC). |
| ICPB |
International Collection of Phytopathogenic Bacteria, Davis, CA, USA. |
| IEM |
Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| IFAM |
Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany. |
| IFM |
Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan. |
| IFO |
Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan (collection transferred to NBRC). |
| IGC |
Center of Biology, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal. |
| IHEM |
Instutute of Hygiene and Epidemiology-Mycology Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium. |
| IID |
Laboratory Culture Collection, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. |
| IJFM |
Instituto ´Jaime Ferrán´ de Microbiología Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain. |
| IMET |
See DSM (formerly National Kurturensammlung für Mikroorganismen, Zentralinstitut für Mikrobiologie und Experimentelle Therapie, Jena, Germany). |
| IMI |
CABI Bioscience, Eggham, UK (formerly International Mycological Institute; same as CMI). |
| IMRU |
Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA. |
| IMSNU |
Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. |
| IMUR |
Institute of Mycology, University of Recife, Recife, Brazil. |
| IMV |
See UCM. |
| INA |
Culture Collection of the Institute of New Antibiotics, Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. |
| INIFAT |
INIFAT Fungus Collection, Ministerio de Agricultura, Habana. |
| INMI |
Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. |
| IP |
Department of Insect Pathology, Institute of Entomology, Czech Republic. |
| ISP |
International Cooperative Project for Description and Deposition of Type Cultures of Streptomyces (terminated). |
| ITEM |
Agri-Food Toxigenic Fungi Culture Collection, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Bari, Italy. |
| IZ |
Departamento de Tecnologia Rural, Piracicaba, Brazil. |
| JBRI |
Jeju Biodiversity Research Institute, Jeju, Republic of Korea. |
| JHH |
New York State Herbarium, Albany, NY, USA. |
| KACC |
Korean Agricultural Culture Collection, National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Republic of Korea. |
| KCCM |
Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms, Department of Food Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. |
| KCTC |
Korean Collection for Type Cultures, Genetic Resources Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Taejon, Republic of Korea. |
| KEMB |
Korea National Environmental Microorganisms Bank, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Republic of Korea. |
| KEMC |
See KEMB. |
| KMM |
Collection of Marine Microorganisms, Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia. |
| KY |
Tokyo Research Laboratory, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. |
| LBG |
Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biology, Confederated Technical High School, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| LCP |
Laboratory of Cryptogamy, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. |
| LIA |
Cryobank of Microorganisms, Research Institute of Antibiotics and Enzymes, St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| LMD |
See NCCB (formerly Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschool, Wageningen, The Netherlands). |
| LMG |
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium. |
| LSH |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. |
| LSHB |
See LSH. |
| LY |
Laboratoire de Mycologie associé au C.N.R.S., Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France. |
| MAFF |
Ministry of Agticulture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| MBIC |
Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture Collection, Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan (defunct). |
| MCC-UPLB |
Microbial Culture Collection, Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna, The Philippines. |
| MCCM |
Medical Culture Collection Marburg, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany. |
| MDH |
Michigan Department of Health, USA. |
| MFC |
Matsushima Fungus Collection, Kobe, Japan. |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA. |
| MRC |
National Research Institute for Nutritional Diseases, Tygerberg, South Africa. |
| MTCC |
Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India |
| MU |
Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium, Department of Botany, Miami University, Ohio, USA. |
| MUCL |
Mycothèque de l´Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. |
| NBIMCC |
National Bank for Industrial Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| NBRC |
NITE Biological Resource Center, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan. |
| NCAIM |
National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Horticulture and Food Industry, Budapest, Hungary. |
| NCB |
National Culture Bank, University of Udine, Udine, Italy. |
| NCCB |
The Netherlands Culture Collection of Bacteria, Utrecht, The Netherlands. |
| NCDC |
See CDC. |
| NCDO |
See NCFB. |
| NCFB |
National Collection of Food Bacteria, Reading, UK (incorporated with NCIMB). |
| NCIB |
National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (incorporated with NCIMB). |
| NCIMB |
National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria, NCIMB Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. |
| NCMB |
National Collection of Marine Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (incorporated with NCIMB). |
| NCMH |
The North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. |
| NCPPB |
National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Harpenden, UK. |
| NCTC |
National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Laboratory Service, London, UK. |
| NCYC |
National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK. |
| NHL |
National Institute of Hygienic Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. |
| NI |
Nagao Institute, Tokyo, Japan (defunct). |
| NIAES |
National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| NIAH |
National Institute of Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| NISL |
Noda Institute for Scientific Research, Noda, Chiba, Japan. |
| NML |
National Microbiology Laboratory Health Canada Culture Collections, National Microbiology Laboratory-Health Canada, Manitoba, Canada. |
| NRC |
Division of Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (same as NRCC). |
| NRCC |
See NRC. |
| NRIC |
NODAI Research Institute Culture Collection, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan. |
| NRRL |
Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, US Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, USA. |
| NZP |
New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Applied Biochemistry Division, Palmerston North, New Zealand. |
| OAC |
Department of Botany and Genetics, University of Guelph, Ont., Canada |
| OCM |
Oregon Collection of Methanogens, Beaverton, OR, USA. |
| OUT |
Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. |
| PCI |
Penicillin Control and Immunology Section, Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, USA. |
| PCM |
Polish Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland. |
| PCU |
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| PDDCC |
See ICMP. |
| PRL |
Prairie Regional Laboratory, Saskatoon, Canada. |
| PTCC |
Persian Type Culture Collection, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran, Iran. |
| PYCC |
Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, C. R. M., New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| QM |
Quartermaster Research and Developement Center, US Army, Natick, MA, USA. |
| RBF |
Raiffeisen Bioforschung, Tullun, Austria. |
| RIA |
Research Institute for Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia. |
| RIB |
National Research Institute of Brewing, Tax Administration Agency, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. |
| RIFY |
Research Institute of Fermentation, Yamanashi University, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. |
| RIMD |
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan. |
| RMF |
Rocky Mountain Herbarium, Fungi, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA. |
| RV |
Collection of Leptospira Strains, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma-Nomentano, Italy. |
| SN |
See AMP. |
| SRRC |
Southern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, New Orleans, LA, USA. |
| TAMA |
Mycology & Metabolic Diversity Research Center, Tamagawa University Research Institute, Machida, Tokyo, Japan. |
| TI |
Herbarium of the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. |
| TIMM |
Institute of Medical Mycology, Teikyo University, Hachioji, Tokyo. |
| TISTR |
Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| TKBC |
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| TMC |
Trudeau Mycobacterial Culture Collection, Trudeau Institute, Denver, CO, USA. |
| TMI |
Tottori Mycological Institute, Japan Kinoko Research Center Foundation, Tottori, Japan. |
| TMW |
Technische Mikrobiologie Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Freising, Germany. |
| UAMH |
University of Alberta Mold Herbarium and Culture Collection, Edmonton, Canada. |
| UBC |
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. |
| UC |
Upjohn Culture Collection, The Upjohn Co. Kalamazoo, MI, USA. |
| UCD |
Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. |
| UCL |
Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. |
| UCM |
Ukrainian Collection of Microorganisms, Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Kiev, Ukraine. |
| UNIQEM |
Unique and Extremophilic Microorganisms Collection of Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Moscow, Russia. |
| UNSW |
University of New South Wales Culture Collection, The Culture Collection, School of Microbiology and Immunology, University of NSW, NSW, Australi. |
| UPSC |
Fungal Culture Collection at the Botanical Museum, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. |
| UQM |
See ACM. |
| USCC |
University of Surrey Culture Collection, Department of Microbiology, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK. |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA. |
| UWO |
University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada. |
| VIAM |
Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria. |
| VKM |
All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia. |
| VPB |
Veterinary Pathology and Bacteriology Collection, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
| VPI |
Anaerobe Laboratory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. |
| VTCC |
Vietnam Type Culture Collection, Center of Biotechnology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. |
| VTT |
VTT Culture Collection, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland. |
| VUT |
School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. |
| WAL |
Wadsworth Anaerobe Laboratory, Wadsworth Hospital Center, Veterans Administration, Wilshire and Sawtelle Blvds., Los Angeles, CA, USA. |
| WB |
Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. |
| WFPL |
Western Forest Products Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
| WSF |
Wisconsin Soil Fungi Collection, Madison, WI, USA. |
| YBLF |
Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. |
| YFI |
See RIFY. |
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