-CAPM- | ECCO

Collection name: Collection of Animal Pathogenic Microorganisms (CAPM)
Acronym: CAPM
WDCM number: 181
Institution: Veterinary Research Institute
Address:
Hudcova 296/70
621 00 Brno
Czech Republic
Website: https://capm.vri.cz/en/
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: viruses – https://capm.vri.cz/en/catalogue-viruses/list-of-viral-families; bacteria – https://capm.vri.cz/en/catalogue-bacteria/list-of-bacterial-species
Correspondence data:
E-mail: capm@vri.cz
Tel.: +420 533 332 131
Correspondent: Dr. Markéta Reichelová, marketa.reichelova@vri.cz (head and bacteria curator), Hana Malenovská, hana.malenovska@vri.cz (viruses curator)

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: bacteria, animal viruses

The CAPM provides more than 300 strains of animal viruses and almost 800 strains of zoopathogenic bacteria.

Supply of cultures (freeze-dried ampoules)

Deposit of strains for public access

Safe storage of customers´ cultures

Deposit of Czech patent cultures only

Freeze-drying service

Development and validation of methods for the long-term preservation, cultivation, and characterisation of cultures

Research focused on the survival of viruses on food and testing the virucidal efficacy of chemical disinfectants

Identification and characterisation of bacterial strains isolated from animal