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Bacteria and archaea format and reference list: Agreed list for collection acronyms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

ATCC: American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia, USA

B

B: Janssens Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium
BGSC: Bacillus Genetic Stock Center, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Biochemistry, Ohio, Canada

C

CBS: Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands
CCM: Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
CCRC: Culture Collection & Research Center, Food Industry Research & Development Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan
CCUG: Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Dept. of Clinical Bacteriology, Göteborg, Sweden
CDC: Center for Disease Control or Communicable Disease Center, United States Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
CECT: Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo, Universidad de Valencia,, Burjasot, Spain
CGSC: E. coli Genetic Stock Center, Yale University, Department of Biology
CIP: Institut Pasteur, CIP-Collection de l'Institut Pasteur
CUB: Actinomycetes Culture Collection, School of Applied Biology, University of Bradford, Yorkshire, U.K.
CY: Centre des Yersinia, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France

D

DSM: see DSMZ
DSMZ: Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

E

ETH: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Institute for Special Botany, Zürich, Switzerland

F

FERM: Fermentation Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of Industrial Trade and Industry, Chiba, Japan

G

GIBSON

H

HB
HMGB: see NCAIM

I

IAM: Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Institute of molecular and cellular bioscience, Tokyo, Japan
ICMP: International Collection Of Microorganisms From Plants, Plant Disease Division, DSIR, Auckland, New Zealand
ICPB: International Collection of Phytopathogenic Bacteria, Davis, Calif., USA
IFAM: Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany
IFO: Institute For Fermentation, Osaka, Japan
IMET: see DSMZ now (formerly National Collection of Microorganisms of the German Democratic Republic, Jena)
IMRU: Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, N. J., USA
INA: Institute for Research on New Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia
INMI: Institute of Microbiology, Russ. Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
IPV: Institute of Plant Pathology, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
ISP: International Streptomyces Project, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, USA

J

JCM: Japan Collection Of Microorganisms, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Japan

K

KCC: Culture Collection of Actinomycetes, Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

L

LBG: Institute of Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biology, Confederated Technical University, Zürich, Switzerland
LMD: Laboratory of Microbiology, Technical University, Delft, The Netherlands, Delft, The Netherlands
LMG: Universiteit Gent, Laboratorium voor Mikrobiologie, Gent, Belgium

M

MA
MCCLUNG

N

NCDO: National Collection of Dairy Organisms, see NCFB
NCFB (NCDO): National Collection of Food Bacteria, c/o NCIMB Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
NCIB: see NCIMB
NCIMB: National Collections of Industrial and Marine Bacteria Ltd., Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
NCMB: see NCIMB
NCPPB: National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Central Science Laboratory, York, United Kingdom
NCTC: National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
NIHJ: Department of Antibiotics, National Institute of Health of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
NRRL: ARS Culture Collection, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, USA
NRS: Collection of Nathan R. Smith, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USA (most strains now at ATCC or NRRL)

O

OCM: Oregon Collection of Methanogenes, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
OEU: Tennoji Branch, Osaka University of Liberal Arts and Education, Osaka, Japan
OUT: Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamadaue, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan

P

PDDCC: Plant Disease Division Culture Collection, New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Auckland, New Zealand
PN

Q

QM: Quartermaster Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Natick Laboratory, Natick, Mass., USA

R

RIA: Research Institute for Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia

S

SN
SP

T

TAL: University of Hawaii, NifTAL Project, Hawaii, USA
TMC: Trudeau Mycobacterial Culture Collection, Trudeau Institute, Colorado, Denver, USA

U

UQM: University of Queensland, Department of Microbiology, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

V

VKM: All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

W

WS: Bakteriologisches Institut, Süddeutsche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt für Milchwirtschaft, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

X

Y

Z

 
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