Notification of bacterial strains made available by the UK National Collection of Type Cultures in 2023

The NCTC 2023 Depositors Cohort (2025) Notification of bacterial strains made available by the UK National Collection of Type Cultures in 2023. Access Microbiology, 7 (10). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2516-8290

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Abstract

Many microbial culture collections, like the UK’s National Collection of Type Cultures, add biological material such as bacterial strains to their holdings over time in a process known as accessioning. Here, we report on the 101 bacterial strains made available to scientists in the UK and globally by the National Collection of Type Cultures in 2023. Strains that are received are preserved, identified to species level and confirmed to be viable and pure. Genomic and metadata (where these are available) are made accessible via the UKHSA Culture Collections online catalogue. Commentary on the strains’ provenance and significance is presented, and wider trends in accessioning between 2017 and 2023 are examined. On average, ~101 strains were made available to the scientific community each year between 2017 and 2023. Fewer strains of veterinary provenance were made available than any other kind of strain, highlighting a need to accession more of these strains. However, there has been growth in the proportion of strains that are either antimicrobial resistant or type strains of novel microbial taxa, demonstrating that the NCTC program of accessioning helps support its function as a contemporary public health resource and repository for prokaryotic taxonomists.

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Additional Information:	Acknowledgements The authors wish to express their thanks once more to the NCTC 2023 Depositors Cohort and to the additional depositors of the strains discussed above, specifically Sabine Gronow of the DSMZ, Germany. The authors would also like to thank Dr Salvador Alamagro- Mor (University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA), Dr Dmitriy Volokhov (US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) and Dr Juliana Coelho (Staphylococcus and Streptococcus Reference Section, Bacteriology Reference Department, UKHSA Colindale, Colindale, London, UK) for the strains they have deposited that are described above. Dr Sarah Alexander left her role as Curator of the NCTC to take up a role as Unit Head for the UKHSA Sexually Transmitted Infections Reference Laboratory in April 2024. The authors would like to acknowledge the mark Dr Alexander had left on the collection, including the delivery of an expansive whole- genome sequencing project, driving the scientific development of the collection and the reinvigoration of the NCTC accessions programme, including much- expanded antimicrobial- resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae sections. For this, and much else, the authors and the staff of the UKHSA Culture Collections are deeply thankful.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bacteria,culture collections,informatics,novel taxa,pathogen,microbiology,microbiology (medical),sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2400/2404
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Related URLs:	https://www.scopus.com/pages/publication...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 May 2026 10:45
Last Modified:	24 May 2026 05:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103088
DOI:	10.1099/acmi.0.001015.v3

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