COLLECTION OF LIVING MICROORGANISM CULTURE

美国典型培养物保藏中心（ATCC）是该国唯一的 长期储存库和配送中心， 活微生物、病毒和细胞系的“博物馆”。 作为 自然储存库，反映了多类别的利益， 生物医学研究社区，ATCC组织，保存， 维护了一个独一无二的分类学上经过认证的群体集合， 相关的生物体作为收藏品。 通过收集，认证， 繁殖、保存和传播如此重要的生物 参考材料中包含的集合，ATCC是 提供对进步至关重要的宝贵研究支持服务 生物医学研究。 如果没有这种培养物，或者 被污染或没有被正确识别， 浪费了大量的研究时间和资金。

The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is the country's only long-term repository and distribution center which functions as a "museum" for living microorganisms, viruses, and cell lines. As a natural repository, reflecting the multicategorical interest of the biomedical research community, the ATCC has organized, preserved, and maintained a one-of-a-kind collection of groups certified, taxonomically related living organisms as Collections. By collecting, certifying, propagating, preserving, and distributing such important biological reference materials as is contained in the Collections, the ATCC is providing invaluable research support services vital to the advancement of biomedical research. If such cultures are not available, or if they are contaminated or not correctly identified, there would be a considerable waste of research time and funds.