CULTURE COLLECTIONS

There are 574 culture collections in 68 countries registrated in WDCM.
228 of them are supported by government.
54 of them are semi-governmental.
211 of them are supported by university.
15 of them are supported by industry.
21 of them are private. (see TABLE 1)

216 collections produce catalogues of holdings.
2,931 people work in these culture collections.

CULTURES HELD

There are totally 1,537,231 microbials in the above culture collections.
685,358 of them are bacteria.
490,296 of them are fungi.
15,956 of them are virus.
11,525 of them are cell line
334,096 of them are the other kinds of microbial.
There are 18,855 type of species or sub-species of bacteria.
There are 25,186 type of species or sub-species of fungi.
There are 2,615 type of species or sub-species of algae.
There are 0 type of species or sub-species of lichens.
There are 0 type of species or sub-species of protozoa.
There are 1,303 type of species or sub-species of vectors.
There are 15 type of species or sub-species of cdna.
There are 442 type of species or sub-species of archaea.
There are 401 type of species or sub-species of celllines_animal.
There are 0 type of species or sub-species of celllines_plants.
There are 0 type of species or sub-species of hybridomas_animal.
There are 0 type of species or sub-species of hybridomas_plants.
There are 66 type of species or sub-species of viruses_animal.
There are 84 type of species or sub-species of viruses_plants.
There are 976 type of species or sub-species of viruses_bacteria.

SERVICES

78 culture collections provide patent deposit services.
246 culture collections provide storage services.
266 culture collections provide distribution services.
284 culture collections provide identification services.
238 culture collections provide training services.
248 culture collections provide consultation services. (See TABLE 2)

Numbers of collections registered with the WDCM in each country.

TABLE 1

AFRICA

COUNTRY	CCS	CULTURES
Egypt	2	1,546
Morocco	1	913
Nigeria	2	223
Senegal	1	210
South Africa	2	8,360
Uganda	1	550
Zimbabwe	2	702
TOTAL	11	12,504

ASIA

COUNTRY	CCS	CULTURES
China	22	72,763
Hong Kong	1	60
India	22	14,919
Indonesia	17	10,505
Iran	7	6,350
Israel	3	776
Japan	24	115,060
Korea (Rep. of)	15	70,513
Malaysia	5	2,508
Pakistan	5	1,908
Philippines	5	3,372
Singapore	3	1,389
Sri Lanka	4	136
Taiwan	2	10,398
Thailand	58	42,541
Viet Nam	1	6,449
TOTAL	194	359,647

EUROPE

COUNTRY	CCS	CULTURES
Armenia	1	7,575
Austria	2	6,070
Belarus	1	1,175
Belgium	5	57,855
Bulgaria	3	13,234
Czech	13	8,497
Denmark	3	86,951
Estonia	3	6,300
Finland	2	7,513
France	36	60,647
Germany	13	47,603
Greece(Hellenic Rep.)	6	5,360
Hungary	6	8,717
Ireland	1	380
Italy	9	13,785
Kazakhstan	2	199
Latvia	1	692
Netherlands	5	76,775
Norway	2	2,602
Poland	9	8,464
Portugal	5	7,035
Romania	2	760
Russian Federation	14	40,874
Slovak	3	4,916
Slovenia	2	4,160
Spain	4	9,027
Sweden	3	52,700
Switzerland	2	2,760
Turkey	7	3,977
U.K.	18	81,202
Ukraine	3	3,286
Uzbekistan	3	1,456
Yugoslavia	2	897
TOTAL	191	633,444

AMERICA

COUNTRY	CCS	CULTURES
Argentina	10	5,554
Brazil	60	140,885
Canada	19	69,356
Chile	1	-
Colombia	2	4,092
Cuba	5	6,157
Mexico	14	5,692
U.S.A.	21	209,276
Venezuela	3	258
TOTAL	135	441,270

OCEANIA

COUNTRY	CCS	CULTURES
Australia	35	73,149
New Zealand	7	16,947
Papua New Guinea	1	270
TOTAL	43	90,366

COUNTRY	CCS	CULTURES
TOTAL	574	1,537,231

TABLE 2

Services provided in addition to regular maintenance.

Pat - Patent depository; Stor - Storage service; Dist - Distribution;

ID - identification service; Train - Training offered; Cons - Consultation service

	Pat.	Stor.	Dist.	ID.	Train.	Cons.
AFRICA
Egypt	1	1	1	1	8	2
Morocco	-	1	1	1	7	2
Nigeria	-	1	1	2	-	1
Senegal	-	1	1	1	3	-
South Africa	-	-	-	1	3	4
Uganda	-	1	-	1	4	-
Zimbabwe	-	-	1	1	4	-
ASIA
China	3	14	10	12	54	29
Hong Kong	-	1	-	-	-	-
India	3	5	7	12	40	19
Indonesia	1	9	3	8	16	13
Iran	2	3	4	5	25	9
Israel	1	1	2	2	4	2
Japan	2	8	17	6	16	25
Korea (Rep. of)	4	9	8	8	29	17
Malaysia	1	1	1	3	1	2
Pakistan	-	5	4	5	17	8
Philippines	-	2	4	4	16	8
Singapore	-	-	-	1	1	2
Sri Lanka	-	2	1	3	6	3
Taiwan	1	1	1	1	6	6
Thailand	-	8	5	8	21	12
Viet Nam	-	-	-	-	-	-
EUROPE
Armenia	1	1	1	1	8	3
Austria	-	1	1	1	-	2
Belarus	1	1	1	1	7	3
Belgium	4	4	4	4	7	14
Bulgaria	1	2	1	3	2	7
Czech	3	6	6	5	8	14
Denmark	-	2	2	2	8	2
Estonia	-	-	-	1	-	-
Finland	-	2	2	2	2	1
France	7	17	18	16	38	28
Germany	2	3	5	8	15	16
Greece(Hellenic Rep.)	1	5	4	5	16	17
Hungary	1	1	1	2	4	2
Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-
Italy	2	4	5	6	14	7
Kazakhstan	1	1	1	1	2	3
Latvia	1	1	1	1	-	3
Netherlands	2	3	4	4	7	9
Norway	-	-	1	1	2	-
Poland	2	7	8	6	13	17
Portugal	-	2	2	5	8	6
Romania	-	2	1	1	1	6
Russian Federation	6	9	11	8	31	27
Slovak	1	1	2	2	6	6
Slovenia	-	1	2	2	4	4
Spain	1	3	2	2	3	5
Sweden	-	1	2	2	-	2
Switzerland	-	1	1	2	2	1
Turkey	3	5	3	4	17	6
U.K.	7	10	13	10	43	52
Ukraine	1	2	2	1	13	6
Uzbekistan	-	3	3	1	8	1
Yugoslavia	-	1	-	-	3	2
AMERICA
Argentina	2	6	4	6	12	14
Brazil	3	25	27	25	101	56
Canada	1	5	11	9	12	22
Chile	-	-	-	-	-	-
Colombia	-	1	2	1	6	2
Cuba	-	3	4	3	11	3
Mexico	2	6	5	12	21	16
U.S.A.	2	9	13	8	26	30
Venezuela	-	1	1	2	5	4
OCEANIA
Australia	1	12	14	17	20	24
New Zealand	-	2	3	4	8	12
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	1	-	-