Table 1.
Summary of publicly available culture collections containing or specializing in mycobacterial reagents.
| Mycobacterial reagents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Location | Approximate number (type strains) | Biosafety level (or equivalent) | Website |
| American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) | Manassas, Virginia, USA | 1300 (100) | BSL-1, -2, -3 | https://www.atcc.org |
| BEI Resources | Manassas, Virginia, USA | 2300 (21) | BSL-1, -2, -3 | https://www.beiresources.org |
| Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Microorganisms/Institute of Tropical Medicine (BCCM/ITM) | Antwerp, Belgium | 850 (40) | BSL-1, -2, -3 | http://bccm.belspo.be |
| Biological Resource Centre of Institut Pasteur/Collection of Institut Pasteur (CRBIP/CIP) | Paris, France | 659 (159) | BSL-1, -2, -3 | https://www.pasteur.fr/en/public-health/crbip |
| Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) | USA; France | 800 | BSL-1, -2, -3 | https://www.finddx.org/specimen-banks/ |
| Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) | Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea | 82 (67) | RG 1, 2 | http://kctc.kribb.re.kr/English/ekctc.aspx |
| Leibniz-Institut, Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ) | Braunschweig, Germany | 424 (173) | BSL-1, -2 | https://www.dsmz.de |
| National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) | Porton Down, Salisbury, UK | 134 (44) | BSL-2, -3 | https://www.phe-culturecollections.org.uk/collections/nctc.aspx |
| National Jewish Health Colorado Cystic Fibrosis Research & Development Program (CF RDP) | Denver, Colorado, USA | 1,000 | BSL-1, -2 | https://www.nationaljewish.org/cocfrdp |
| NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC) | Chiba, Japan | 32 (4) | BSL-1, -2 | http://www.nite.go.jp/en/nbrc/index.html |
| RIKEN BioResource Center/Japan Collection of Microorganisms (RIKEN BRC/JCM) | Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan | 171 | RG 1, 2 | http://jcm.brc.riken.jp |
BSL: Biosafety Level; RG: Risk Group.