NCIMB - Culture Collection - Abbreviations And Nomenclature

Abbreviations And Nomenclature

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Abbreviations Used in the Strain List

ACAM	Australian Collection of Antartic Microorganisms, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
ACC	Akers Culture Collection, ICI Ltd., Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, U.K.
ACM	Australian Collection of Microorganisms, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
AJ	Ajinomoto Company, Kawasaki, Japan
AMC	Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, Washington, U.S.A.
AMNH	American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A.
AS	See IMAS
ATCC	American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia, U.S.A.
ATU	Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
AUCNM	All Union Collection of Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia.
BGSC	Bacillus Genetic Stock Centre, Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A.
BKM	See AUCNM
BRL	Beecham Research Laboratories, Betchworth, Surrey, U.K.
BU	See BUCSAV
BUCSAV	Biologicky Ustav, CSAV, Prague, Czechoslovakia
CBS	Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Baarn, The Netherlands
CCEB	Culture Collection of Entomogenous Bacteria, Prague, Czechoslovakia
CCM	Czechoslovak Collection of Microorganisms, Brno, Czechoslovakia
CCUG	Culture Collection, University of Goteborg, Sweden
CDA	Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
CDC	Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
CECT	Coleccion Espanola de Cultivos Tipo, Departemento de Microbiologia, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Valencia, Spain
CERBOM	Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Biologie et d'Oceanographie Medicale, Unite 40, Nice, France
CGSC	Coli Genetic Stock Centre, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
CIP	Collection Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
CMI	UK National Collection of Fungus Cultures, Egham, Surrey, U.K.
CN	Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, U.K.
CNCTC	Czechoslovak National Collection of Type Cultures, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czechoslavakia
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Homebush, New South Wales, Australia
CUETM	Collection Unite Ecotoxicologie Microbienne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Nord, France
DB	Division of Bacteriology and Dairy Research, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
DSM(Z)	Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
EP	Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down, Wiltshire, U.K.
EP	Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down, Wiltshire, U.K.

The scientific names of bacteria listed are in accordance with the presently accepted nomenclature in bacteriology. Names are valid only when listed in the "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names" (Skerman et al. 1989, American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC ISBN 1-55581-014-4) as indicated by AL . Alternatively, they may have been validly published since then by an original publication in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology - IJSEM (formerly the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology), or published elsewhere and subsequently cited in the lists of "Validation of the Publication of New Names and New Combinations Previously Effectively Published Outside the IJSEM"*. All other names should be considered as invalid and are listed in the catalogue in quotation marks.

Due to the fact that bacterial taxonomy is in a constant state of flux and that invalid names, and validly published synonyms still circulate in the literature, a high degree of cross referencing is maintained in the current catalogue to facilitate ease of search for users. (* Such organisms are superscript"VP".)

Arrangement of Strain Data

Example: a Staphylococcus aureus subsp aureus AL. b * c 13062 ( d S33 R4 ATCC 12600 CCM 885 IAM 12544 NCTC 8532 RH2606) e NCTC -- S.T. Cowan / f Pleural fluid/g (1 37C).

a. Scientific (genus/species/sub-species) name. AL signifies this strain has been validly published and appears on the "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names".

b. Asterisk denotes a type strain.

c. NCIMB numerical citation/collection number.

d. Strain number, followed by alternative culture collection listings for the same strain (see abbreviations section for a list of collection acronyms).

e. History. In this case, S.T. Cowan deposited this organism in the NCTC who in turn passed it onto NCIMB.

f. Source of isolate.

g. Growth conditions (medium and growth/incubation temperature).