Kocuria rhizophila

PTCC No: 
1109
Other collection No. :: 
ATCC 9341a, CIP106636, DSM46222, PCI1001/D
Culture condition: 
30 °C
Information: 
<- ATCC <- <- FDA, PCI 1001/D (deposited as Sarcina lutea). Until 2003 preserved as Micrococcus luteus. Murein: A11.6. Streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin resistant. Used for cylinder plate assay of penicillin(in body fluids, feeds and milk) .
Literature: 

Streptomycin resistant (Antibiotics Chemother 1957, 7: 640). Assay of penicillin (Wilner J., Arret B., Selzer G.B. and Kirshbaum A., 1965. Tentative procedures for detecting and measuring penicillin contamination in drugs. Dept. of Health Education and Welfare, US Food and Drug Administration, Washington D.C.)

Supplied as: 
Freeze-dried
Risk group: 
1