Available in Europe and India via LGC, the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the life sciences.

Microbiologics offers a uniquely qualified array of the most highly accredited biological reference materials and tests, which are sourced from the world's leading collections, packaged in convenient and valuable formats and expediently delivered.

NCIMB is a professional microbiology company building and managing what is now the largest industrial, marine and food culture collection in the UK.

National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC), is a UK Health Protection Agency Culture Collection. The collection comprises over 5000 bacterial cultures, over 100 mycoplasmas and more than 500 plasmids, host strains, bacteriophages and transposons.

The UK's premier collection of yeast cultures, holding over 4000 strains collected over 50 years.

UKNCC was established to co-ordinate the activities of the UK national service collections of microbial organisms.

The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world.

Campden BRI – Science, technology and information for the food, drink and allied industries worldwide.

The voice of Microbiology in Europe whose mission is to advance and unify microbiology knowledge.

An online library of microbiological test methods and suppliers.

The Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) is the voice of applied microbiology and the UK's oldest microbiological society.

The Society for General Microbiology's objective is to advance the art and science of microbiology.

This site brings together many links on bacteria, bacteriology, and related topics available on the web. It also provides crystal-clear information about many aspects of bacteria.