Recent News
The National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) in England is accepting mycoplasma strains of medical or veterinary significance for deposit at no cost. Please see their website for information.
Dušan Benčina has sadly passed away. Please see the Obituaries page.
The citations for the most recent minutes of the Mollicutes Taxonomy Subcommittee Meetings:
May, M. and D.R. Brown. 2014. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Mollicutes: minutes of the meetings (closed and open), 1 and 5 June 2014, Blumenau SC, Brazil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 64:3904-6.
Firrao, G. and D.R. Brown. 2013. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Mollicutes: Minutes of the meetings, July 15th and 19th 2012, Toulouse, France. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63:2361-4.
Culture Deposits
The Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ) is now accepting deposits of mycoplasma strains for those who need this service in order to achieve new species designations. This is very important and I want to commend Dan for getting this arranged for the benefit of everyone who works in this area.
Contact Dr. Sabine Gronow at the address below:
Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ)
Inhoffenstr. 7b, 38124 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel.: ++49 531 2616-235
Fax: ++49 531 2616-222
E-mail: Sabine.Gronow@dsmz.de
Instructions to initiate a deposit can be found at the DSMZ website: www.dsmz.de
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Last updated on January 16, 2018