| Registered Number | 817 |
| Acronym | LIH-UNAM |
| Full Name | Culture Collection of Histoplasma capsulatum Strains from the Fungal Immunology Laboratory of the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM |
| Institution | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Correspondent | Dr. Maria Lucia Taylor da Cunha e Mello |
| Postal Address | Tezoquipa 91, departamento 502, Barrio Nino de Jesus,Mexico, D.F,D.F.,14080 |
| Country | Mexico |
| Telephone 1 | (52) 56-23 24 62 |
| Telephone 2 | (52) 55-139786 |
| Fax 1 | (52) 56-23 24 62 |
| E-mail 1 | emello@servidor.unam.mx |
| E-mail 2 | jarb@servidor.unam.mx |
| Homepage | http://www.histoplas-mex.unam.mx/ |
| Status | University |
| Sponsor | Faculty of Medicine, UNAM |
| Director | Dr. Maria Lucia Taylor da Cunha e Mello |
| Curator | Assoc. Prof. Maria Lucia Taylor da Cunha e Mello (Fungal Immunology and Mycology) |
| Assoc. Prof. Gabriela M. en C. Rodriguez Arellanes (Mycology) | |
| Assoc. Prof. Jose Antonio M. en C. Ramirez Barcenas (Mycology) | |
| Number of Staff |
Mycology (3) Total (3) |
| Subjects | Culture and preservation methods |
| Ecology | |
| Immunology | |
| Medical microbiology | |
| Molecular biology |
| Method and category of cultures | Freeze-dry(NA) | ||||
| Liquid N2(NA) | |||||
| Subculturing(NA) | |||||
| Control of the culture | Strains are maintained in Brain Heart Infusion, Mycobiotic media. | ||||
| Cryopreservative are added depending on the cryopreservation methodology used. | |||||
| Deposit | Mainly to our collection | ||||
| Source(s) of strains for people in this country: isolated by or introduced from | Isolation by ourselves | ||||
| From the research institutions in our country | |||||
| Number of Strains until now | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
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| Fungi | 190 | 88 | |||
| Number of strains last year | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
Microbes distributed (total number)/(in your country) |
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| Fungi | |||||||
| Availability | Exchange |
| Fee |
| Services | Distribution |
| Identification | |
| Training | Culture and preservation methods |
| Quality control | |
| Use of computers in culture collections | |
| Identification | |
| Consulation about | Patent deposits |
| Date of Entry | 2001-10-02 |
| Date of Reply | 2007-12-07 |
| Fungi |