National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC)

Welcome to the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC), a Health Protection Agency Culture Collection.

About NCTC

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The collection comprises over 5000 bacterial cultures, over 100 mycoplasmas and more than 500 plasmids, host strains, bacteriophages and transposons.

You can either browse or search the collection.

Cultures are supplied as freeze-dried ampoules.
A selected range of cultures are also available as NCTC LENTICULE® Discs.

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Controls

Services offered by NCTC
Contract Freeze-Drying

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