Provision of microorganisms

Samples of microbial cultures deposited in the Belarusian Collection of Non-pathogenic Microorganisms are available on a contractual basis upon request of legal entities having necessary conditions and specialists for working with microorganisms (an appropriate written confirmation must be provided upon request of the Collection). The Collection does not provide natural entities with culture samples.

To acquire cultures of microorganisms from the Collection using this website, you need to add strains of interest to cart and complete the request form.

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Alternatively, you may specify requirements the microorganism should meet in the search request form below. In this case, the Collection staff will find a culture meeting specified requirements (if only the Collection has appropriate culture deposited).

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After request submission, the Collection prepares a contract within 14 working days and sends it to the contact email address specified in the request. The requesting organization then signs the contract and sends the signed contract back by post and a scanned copy by email. Then the requesting organization should pay for the provision of the microbial culture being requested. When the payment is received, the Collection provides the requesting organization with the microbial culture and the supplementary documents.

Payment terms. The cost of work performed according to the contract depends on the species of a microorganism, on the form (active, freeze-dried or frozen biomass) and number of prepared samples. Also, the cost may vary depending on the purpose for which the requester intends to use the culture.

Purity and viability of a provided microbial sample may be claimed within two months starting with the date when the sample was received.

You still can send an application (with your organization’s letterhead) for provision of microbial cultures by email (collectionmbio.bas-net.by) or by fax +375 (17) 395 47 66. Also, you may send the application by post; the address is the following: Institute of Microbiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Kuprevich str., 2, Minsk, Belarus, 220084.

Application form: request for strain from open collection (in Russian)