• Institution: Polish Collection of Microorganims
  • Acronym: PCM
  • Location: Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Rudolfa Weigl 12
    53-114 Wrocław
    POLAND
  • Website: http://www.pcm.org.pl
  • Correspondent:
    Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Kowal
    e-mail: pcm@eccosite.org

Members holdings

Bacteria, yeast, over 3000 strains.

Services offered

Public deposit, strains’ distribution, patent deposit, species identification: MALDI Biotyper and 16S rRNA (ITS) sequencing, bacteria/yeast isolation from environmental and medical samples, freeze-drying of strains.

Research

Medical, veterinary and environmental microbiology.

  1. Njamkepo E., Fawal N., Tran-Dien A., Hawkey J., Strockbine N., Jenkins C., Talukder K.A., Bercion R., Kuleshov K., Kolínská R., Russell J.E., Kaftyreva L., Accou-Demartin M., Karas A., Vandenberg O., Mather A.E., Mason C.J., Page A.J., Ramamurthy T., Bizet C., Gamian A., Carle I., Sow A.G., Bouchier C., Wester A.L., Lejay-Collin M., Fonkoua M.C., Hello S.L., Blaser M.J., Jernberg C., Ruckly C., Mérens A., Page A.L., Aslett M., Roggentin P., Fruth A., Denamur E., Venkatesan M., Bercovier H., Bodhidatta L., Chiou C.S., Clermont D., Colonna B., Egorova S., Pazhani G.P., Ezernitchi A.V., Guigon G., Harris S.R., Izumiya H., Korzeniowska-Kowal A., Lutyńska A., Gouali M., Grimont F., Langendorf C., Marejková M., Peterson L.A., Perez-Perez G., Ngandjio A., Podkolzin A., Souche E., Makarova M., Shipulin G.A., Ye C., Žemličková H., Herpay M., Grimont P.A., Parkhill J., Sansonetti P., Holt K.E., Brisse S., Thomson N.R., Weill F.X.: Global phylogeography and evolutionary history of Shigella dysenteriae type 1. Nature Microbiol. 2016, 1: 16027 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27572446/).
  2. Książczyk M, Kuczkowski M, Dudek B, Korzekwa K, Tobiasz A, Korzeniowska- Kowal A, Paluch E, Wieliczko A, Bugla-Płoskońska G. Application of Routine Diagnostic Procedure, VITEK 2 Compact, MALDI-TOF MS, and PCR Assays in Identification Procedure of Bacterial Strain with Ambiguous Phenotype. Curr Microbiol. 2016 May;72(5):570-82. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26804795/
  1. Król J, Wanecka A, Twardoń J, Mrowiec J, Dropińska A, Bania J, Podkowik M, Korzeniowska-Kowal A, Paściak M. Isolation of Staphylococcus microti from milk of dairy cows with mastitis. Vet Microbiol. 2016 Jan 15;182:163-9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26711044/
  1. Korzeniowska-Kowal A, Kochman A, Gamian E, Lis-Nawara A, Lipiński T, Seweryn E, Ziółkowski P, Gamian A. Antibodies against Escherichia coli O24 and O56 O-Specific Polysaccharides Recognize Epitopes in Human Glandular Epithelium and Nervous Tissue. PLoS One.;10(6):e0129492, 2015 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26086646/
  1. Zdziarski P, Paściak M, Rogala K, Korzeniowska-Kowal A, Gamian A. Elizabethkingia miricola as an opportunistic oral pathogen associated with superinfectious complications in humoral immunodeficiency: a case report. BMC Infectious Diseases 2017; 17:763, DOI 10.1186/s12879-017-2886-7.
  2. Wanecka Anna, Król Jarosław, Twardoń Jan, Mrowiec Jacek, Korzeniowska-Kowal Agnieszka, Wzorek Anna, Efficacy of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry as well as genotypic and phenotypic methods in identification of staphylococci other than Staphylococcus aureus isolated from intramammary infections in dairy cows in Poland. J Vet Diagn Invest. 2019 Apr 22:1040638719845423
  3. Piotr Jarocki, Elwira Komoń-Janczara, Agnieszka Glibowska, Michał Dworniczak, Monika Pytka, Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Kowal, Anna Wzorek and Monika Kordowska-Wiater. Molecular Routes to Specific Identification of the Lactobacillus Casei Group at the Species, Subspecies and Strain Level, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 2694, DOI: 10.3390/ijms21082694
  4. Marta Książczyk, Bartłomiej Dudek, Maciej Kuczkowski, Robert O’Hara, Kamila Korzekwa, Anna Wzorek, Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Kowal, Mathew Upton, Adam Junka, Alina Wieliczko, Radosław Ratajszczak, Gabriela Bugla-Płoskońska The Phylogenetic Structure of Reptile, Avian and Uropathogenic Escherichia coli with Particular Reference to Extraintestinal Pathotypes, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(3), 1192; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22031192.
  5. Florek M, Nawrot U, Korzeniowska-Kowal A, Włodarczyk K, Wzorek A, Woźniak-Biel A, Brzozowska M, Galli J, Bogucka A, Król J. An analysis of the population of Cryptococcus neoformans strains isolated from animals in Poland, in the years 2015-2019. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 23;11(1):6639. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86169-3.
  6. Jakubska-Busse A, Kędziora A, Cieniuch G, Korzeniowska-Kowal A, Bugla-Płoskońska G. Proteomics-based identification of orchid-associated bacteria colonizing the Epipactis albensis, E. helleborine and E. purpurata (Orchidaceae, Neottieae). Saudi J Biol Sci. 2021 Jul;28(7):4029-4038. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.04.002. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

 

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