-CCUG-
  • Collection name: Culture Collection, University of Gothenburg
  • Acronym: CCUG
  • WDCM number: 32
  • Institution: Sahlgrenska University Hospital & University of Gothenburg
  • Address:
    Guldhedsgatan 10
    41346 Gothenburg
    Sweden
  • Website: http://www.ccug.se
    Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: http://www.ccug.se
    Correspondence data:
    E-mail: curator@ccug.se
    Tel.: +46 70 259 8355
    Correspondent: Prof. Edward R.B. Moore

Members holdings

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: bacteria, yeasts, filamentous fungi, other fungus-like organisms, plasmids (including plasmid bearing strains), bacterial genomic DNA

  • CCUG Accession numbers: 78473 (August 2025 - since April 1968)
  • CCUG Strains on-line: 21931 (August 2025)
  • Subcollections:
  • Type Strains: 3961
  • Strain gDNA: 217
  • Sequenced Genomes: 88
  • Antimicrobial Resistance: 110
  • Quality Control Strains:
  • The CCUG Search Engine enables searches for strains by key words.

    • Services offered

  • Supply of cultures: freeze-dried
  • Supply of DNA
  • Deposit of strains for public access and for safe keeping
  • Identification (species-level) / Typing (sub-species-level).
  • Phenotypic and morphological profiling and genotypic-based methods are applied for analysing microorganisms, as well as: cell-fatty acids (CFA / FAME) profiling; MALDI-TOF MS profiling of cell proteins and tandem LC/MS proteotyping and peptide and protein biomarker analyses of whole-cell and cell-surface proteins; NMR-based metabolomic analyses; DNA sequence analyses of 16S rRNA genes and selected taxa-specific house-keeping genes for multi-locus sequence analyses (MLSA); genomic DNA sequence determination and analyses.
  • All methods are explained in English on our website. Details and results of strain characterizations are displayed in our website.

    • Research

    Focus of research: applications of genotyping, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics for microbial systematics, taxonomy and diversity; development of methods for the identification (species-level) and typing (sub-species-level) of clinically-relevant microorganisms; study of microbial resistance in clinical and environmental ecosystems. Current (2025) support for research projects is from regional, national and international (EC) funding agencies.

    Quality Management System

    ISO 15189. The accreditation is given in Swedish by SWEDAC Ackreditering.