ACAM	Australian Collection of Antarctic Microorganisms, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.
AHU	Laboratory of Culture Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
AJ	Central Research Laboratories, Ajinomoto Company, Inc., Kawasaki, Japan.
AMC	Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
API	Appareils et Procédés d´Identification, Montalieu-Vercieu, France.
AS	Institute of Microbiology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.
ATCC	American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Va., U.S.A.
BBA-F	Biologische Bundesanstalt, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Berlin, Germany.
BIU	Botanisches Institut der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
BÚ ČSAV	Institute of Biology , CAS, Prague, Czech Republic.
CBS	Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures , Baarn, The Netherlands.
CCM	Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
CCRC	Culture Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
CCTM	Centre de Collection de Types Microbiens, Lausanne, Switzerland.
CCUG	Culture Collection University of Göteborg, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Göteborg, Sweden.
CCY	Culture Collection of Yeasts, Institute of Chemistry, Bratislava, Slovakia
CDA	Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.
CDC	Center for Disease Control or Communicable Disease Control, United States Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
CECT	Collection Espanola de Cultivos Tipo, Valencia, Spain.
CERBOM	Centre d´Etudes et de Recherches de Biologie et d´Océanographie Médicale, Nice, France.
CFML	Collection de la Faculté de Médecine de Lille, Lille, France.
CIH	Central Institute of Hygiene, Ankara, Turkey.
CIP	Collection de Bactéries de l´Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
CMI	see IMI.
CN	Burroughs Welcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, U.K.
CNCM	Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
CNCTC	Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
CNRZ	Centre National de Recherches Zootechniques, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
CRIPP	Central Research Institute of Plant Production, Prague-Ruzyně, Czech Republic.
CST	Collection Souches Tepral des Brasseries Kronenbourg, Strasbourg, France.
CUB	Actinomycete Culture Collection, School of Applied Biology, University of Bradford, Yorkshire, U.K.
CUETM	Collection Unité d´Ecotoxicologie Microbienne, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médical, Villeneuve d´Ascq, France.
DAOM	Department of Agriculture (Mycology), Ottawa, Canada.
DAR	Department of Agriculture, Biological and Chemical Research Institute, Rydalmere, N.S.W., Australia.
DBVPG	Collection of Yeasts, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Perugia, Italy.
DD	Qualicon Inc., a DuPont Subsidiary, Wilmington, U.S.A.
DMAC	Department of Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
DMMZ	Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
DSM	now DSMZ.
DSMZ	Deutsche Sammlung von Microorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig , Germany.
FAT	Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
FDA	Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
FGSC	Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, U.S.A.
GIFU	Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan.
HAMBI	Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
HER	Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for bacterial viruses of the Université Laval, Québec, Canada
HIH	Hygiene Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
HIK	Hygiene Institut, Universität Köln, Köln, Germany.
HIM	Zentrum für Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany.
HKI	Hans – Kröll – Institut für Naturstoff – Forschung , Jena, Germany.
HNCMB	Hungarian National Collection of Medical Bacteria, National Institute of Hygiene, Budapest, Hungary
IAM	Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
IBS	Institut de Bactériologie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
ICMP	International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants, Plant Diseases Division, DSIR, Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly PDDCC.
ICPB	International Collection of Phytopathogenic Bacteria, Davis, California, U.S.A.
IFO	Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan.
IHE	Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czech Republic.
IID	Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
IJFM	Instituto Jaimé Ferrán de Microbiología del Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
IMET	Nationale Kulturensammlung für Mikroorganismen, Zentralinstitut für Mikroorganismen, Zentralinstitut für Mikrobiologie und experimentelle Therapie, Jena, Germany.
IMG	Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
IMI	International Mycological Institute, Egham, Surrey, U.K.
IMRU	Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
IMUL	Institut de Microbiologie de l´Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
INMI	Institute of Microbiology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
IPDH	Institute of Poultry Disease, Hannover, Germany.
ISP	International Streptomyces Project, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, U.S.A.
ITG	Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
JCM	Japan Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan.
KCC	Culture Collection of Actinomycetes, Kaken Pharmaceutical Company,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
KHS	Regional Hygienic Stations, Czech Republic.
LCDC	Laboratory Center for Disease Control, Ottawa, Canada..
LMD	Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands.
LMG	BCCM^TM/LMG Bacteria Collection Laboratorium Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium.
LTU	Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
MCCM	Medical Culture Collection , Marburg, Germany.
MRC	National Research Institute for Nutritional Diseases, Tygerberg, South Africa.
MRI	Microbiology Research Institute, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
MW	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Pilzkulturensammlung, Weimar, Germany.
NCA	National Canner´s Association, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
NCAIM	National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, Budapest, Hungary.
NCDC	see CDC.
NCDO	National Collection of Dairy Organisms, see NCFB.
NCFB	National Collection of Food Bacteria, Reading, U.K. Formerly NCDO; now incorporated into NCIMB.
NCIB	National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. Now NCIMB.
NCIMB	National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria Ltd., Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.
NCMB	National Collection of Marine Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. Now NCIMB.
NCPPB	National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Harpenden, U.K.
NCTC	National Collection of Type Cultures, London, U.K.
NCYC	National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, U.K.
NIHJ	National Institutes of Health, Japan.
NRC	National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
NRIC	NODAI Research Institute Culture Collection, Tokyo University of Agriculture,Tokyo, Japan.
NRL	Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Division of Infectious Diseases, United States Public Health Hospital, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
NRL CEM	National Reference Laboratories, Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
NRL KHS	National Reference Laboratory, Regional Hygienic Station, Czech Republic.
NRRL	ARS Culture Collection, Northern Utilization Research and Development Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Ill., U.S.A.
NZCC	New Zealand Culture Collection, Dairy Research Institute, Private Bag, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
OCU	Osaka City University, Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
OHS	District Hygienic Stations, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
OUT	Faculty of Engineering Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
PCI	Penicillin Control and Immunology Section, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
PCM	Polish Collection of Microorganisms, Wroclaw, Poland.
PD	Plant Protection Service, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
PDDCC	Plant Diseases Division Culture Collection. See ICMP.
PSA	Progetto Sistematica Actinomiceti, Institute of Microbiology, Milano University, Milano, Italy
PZH	Collection of Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland.
QM	Quartermaster Culture Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Now incorporated into NRRL.
RCR	Rothamstead Collection of Rhizobium, Soil Microbiology Department, Rothamstead Experimental Station, Harpenden, U.K.
RIA	see VNIIA.
RICP	Research Institute of Crop Production, Prague, Czech Republic.
RTCI	Research Laboratory, Takeda Chemical Industry, Osaka, Japan.
SBVG	see BIU.
SLCC	Special Listeria Culture Collection, Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Germany.
SMRICC	Swedish Meat Research Institute Culture Collection, Kärlinge, Sweden.
SVÚ	State Veterinary Institutes, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
SZÚ	National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
TISTR	Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Bangkok, Thailand.
UBC	Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
UCD	Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California, U.S.A.
UCL	Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
UNH	University of New Hampshire, Durham, U.S.A.
UQM	University of Queensland, Department of Microbiology, St.Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
UQV	Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
UWO	Culture Collection University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
VKM	All-Union Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
VNIIA	All – Union Scientific Research Institute of Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia.
VPB	Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
VPI	Anaerobe Culture Collection, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
VŠCHT	Faculty of Chemistry, Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.
VÚAB	Research Institute of Antibiotics and Biotransformations, Roztoky, Czech Republic.
WRI	Worcester Royal Infirmary, Worcester, U.K.
WRRL	Western Regional Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
WSRW	School of Agronomy, Warsaw, Poland.