European Culture Collections Organization

STRAINS Strains of Pleurotus ostreatus are available from commercial and private stocks. The American Type Culture Collection, which sells cultures to educational organizations and research facilities, has stock cultures of several wild and domesticated strains. Somycers-3004 is the standard strain used by the European Pleurotus industry and is synonymous with ATCC s-38546. 

Seed stocks of the AG group of biological agents are readily available in the natural environment and from culture collections in the industrialized and in some developing nations. The recent outbreaks of Ebola in Africa and Hanta virus infections in Asia and North and South America are evidence of this. In addition, these organisms may be obtained from national collections (e.g., American Type Culture Collection fATCCJ and European collections). 

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