Mycobacterial biomaterials and resources for researchers

Manzour Hernando Hazbón (1) , Leen Rigouts (2) , Marco Schito , Matthew Ezewudo , Takuji Kudo , Takashi Itoh , Moriya Ohkuma , Katalin Kiss , Linhuan Wu , Juncai Ma , Moriyuki Hamada , Michael Strong , Max Salfinger , Charles L Daley , Jerry A Nick , Jung-Sook Lee , Nalin Rastogi (3) , David Couvin (3) , Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz (4) , Chantal Bizet (5) , Anita Suresh , Timothy Rodwell , Audrey Albertini , Karen A Lacourciere , Ana Deheer-Graham , Sarah Alexander , Julie E Russell , Rebecca Bradford (1) , Marco A Riojas (1)

1 ATCC - American Type Culture Collection
2 ITM - Institute of Tropical Medicine [Antwerp]
3 Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries - WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory
4 CRBIP - Centre de Ressources biologiques de l'Institut Pasteur - Biological Resource Center of the Institut Pasteur
5 CIP - Collection de l'Institut Pasteur

One sentence summary: This review aims to raise awareness among mycobacterial researchers of the many global resources available, including culture collections distributing mycobacterial biomaterials as well as other valuable resources such as databases and computational/bioinformatics tools. Editor: Kathleen McDonough

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Bacteriology

Manzour Hernando Hazbón, Leen Rigouts, Marco Schito, Matthew Ezewudo, Takuji Kudo, et al.. Mycobacterial biomaterials and resources for researchers. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 2018, 76 (4), ⟨10.1093/femspd/fty042⟩. ⟨pasteur-01986667⟩