AOAC SPADA Meeting

Bacterial Strain Verification in  the Unified Culture Collection David Rozak USAMRIID 17 October 2018

The Unified Culture Collection

Bacteriology Section

Escherichia, 71 Clostridium, 57

Staphylococcus, 55 Pasteurella, 45

Brucella, 104

Streptococcus, 26 Coxiella, 19

Mycoplasma, 8

Yersinia, 107

Listeria, 6

Enterococcus, 11 Lactobacillus, 11 Neisseria, 11 Enterobacter, 9 Haemophilus, 9

Ralstonia, 6

Burkholderia, 194

Salmonella, 6 Arcanobacterium, 5 Klebsiella, 5 Mannheimia, 5 Mycobacterium, 5 Pseudomonas, 5

Other, 51

Bacteroides, 8 Corynebacterium, 8

Francisella, 241

Bacillus, 382

Numbers of accessioned strains

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