Establishment of high-quality culture collection of pathogenic bacteria

Abstract

Since 1967, culture collection of bacterial pathogen started at RIMD which at first belonged to the Department for Bacterial Serology. A culture collection room was established independently in RIMD supported by the Ministry of Education in 1973. It was reorganized as the Research Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases in 1998. Furthermore, in 2005 it was reorganized as the Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit in the International Research Center for Infectious Diseases. The author worked as curator with a technician to maintain and develop the collection. A description is presented here of the history of our culture collection and the research being conducted to develop a high-quality collection at the Unit.