Quality Control Strains

ATCC provides top-quality microbial strains needed to maintain outstanding Quality Control programs. Commercial firms specify ATCC strains as controls for rapid identification, minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics and antibiotic susceptibility panels.Trust ATCC for your laboratory quality control needs.
Enterococcus faecalis sp., Pete_Wardel, CDC

QC Strains by Instrument

Browse ATCC species and strains specified or recommended for use with commercial kits and instruments.
Staphyloccus epidermidis, Segrid McAllister and Janice Carr, CDC

QC Strains by Organization/ Company

Commercial firms specify ATCC strains as controls for rapid identification, minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics and antibiotic susceptibility panels.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Janice Hanley Carr. CDC

Certified Reference Materials

ATCC offers Certified Reference Materials for use in testing or calibration, validation or comparing test methods, and to benchmark critical assay performance.
Clostridium difficile, Lois S. Wiggs, CDC

Clinical Quality Control

ATCC provides a variety of fully characterized strains for use in clinical laboratories as controls in biochemical, antibiotic susceptibility, and genotypic testing.
Bacillus cereus, Dr. William A. Clark, CDC

Quality Control for Food Microbiology

ATCC provides fully characterized strains necessary for the microbiological analysis of food products to identify and prevent the spread of foodborne disease.
Burkholderia cepacia, Janice Haney Carr, CDC

Quality Control and Industry

ATCC offers quality control strains for assurance testing in industrial microbiology for processes such as the production of food, antibiotics, and biopolymers.
Escherichia coli O157H7, National Escherichia Shigella Vibrio Reference Unit, CDC

Quality Control and Media Testing

ATCC provides various microbiological strains for use in routine media sterility testing and growth promotion testing.
MRSA

Health and Medical Quality Control

ATCC has several quality control strains for use by pharmaceutical corporations or in personal care for strain identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing
scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of an untreated water specimen, Janice Haney Carr, CDC

Control of Environmental Water Sources

ATCC offers a variety of strains for use in the quality control and analysis of environmental water sources.