0-20 meters below sea level off the coast of Santa Barbara
10 m depth from Coastal Pacific Ocean, Newport, Oregon
10 m water depth from station NH15, Oregon Coast, USA
10m depth at San Diego Bay surface sediments
10m depth from Coastal Pacific Ocean Newport Oregon
10m depth from coastal waters off Zanzibar
10m from the coastal Pacific ocean at Newport, Oregon
12-Year Epizootic in House Finche populations starting in Washington, D. C. in 1994
120 m depth of a Saanich Inlet a seasonally anoxic fjord in British Columbia in Canada
15m depth of the Equatorial Pacific on June 1995
1890s during an influenza pandemic by Pfeiffer
1961 from a mud sample that came from the fish pens from Magueyes Island in Puerto Rico
1964 in Barbados Harbor from surface waters
1969 from a case of fatal pneumonia in a male patient
1983 in Maryland where it caused neonatal meningitis
1m depth at Masan Bay in South Sea Korea
2-3 million-year permafrost core in Siberia Russia
2-year old dog in North Carolina in 1989
2-year-old girl with tick-borne relapsing fever in Tanzania
20-40000 year old Serbian permafrost in Russia
2003-2005 outbreak of meningococcal disease in China
30 year old male patient with a single ear lesion
3010m depth in the Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Km3 Station (36 29 98 N, 15 39 97 E, salinity 38.75 PSU
38,000-year old specimen from Vindija Croatia
39 year old man with Chronic granulomatous disease
3m depth at 3 km off the coast of Helgoland in the North Sea
3m depth at Bleached coral Mediterreanean
3m depth from Coast of Charleston South Carolina
410m depth from a borehole sample that was drilled at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina
5-way CG region of Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, CA
5m depth at Equatorial Pacific on October 1992
6- to 9-cm-deep sediment pushcore interval (PC45) obtained from the Eel River Basin off the Mendocino California coastline
67 year old male patient with severe CDAD in Quebec in 2005
67 year old patient with severe CDAD in London Ontario in 2005
70 year old patient with severe CDAD in St. John's, Newfoundland in 2004
8,000 ft below the surface from a South African gold mine in the Witwatersrand Basin
9000 m depth in the Tonga-Kermadec Trench in the Pacific Ocean
A deli in the United States in 2000 during an epidemic outbreak
A mixture of 5 cells from the TM7 phylum, identified by hybridization of a TM7 probe, were mixed together and amplified by multiple displacement amplification (MDA)
Ace Lake in Vestfold Hills Antarctica at a depth of 24m
Acidic forest cambisol near Marburg Germany
Acidic hot spring from Moutnovski volcano in Kamchatka, Russia
Acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
Acidic hydrothermal vents on the shore of Aeolian Island of Vulcano Italy
Acidic mine drainage in Yanahara mine Okayama Japan
Activated sludge found at the wastewater treatment plant in Moscow Russia
Activated sludge mixed liquor from Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant Madison WI July 2004
Active chimney in the North Fiji Basin of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 3500m
Acutely infected cow from Northern Idaho
Adult patient with louse-borne relapsing fever in Ethiopia
Adult tunicate surface at a depth of 10 m in Gullmarsfjorden off of the west coast of Sweden
African and Central and South American alkaline salt lakes
Alimentary canal of a Japanese corbicula clam
Alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park
Alkaline hypersaline arsenic-rich mud from Mono Lake California
American soldier who had diarrhea in Viet Nam
Anaerobic activated sludge of molasses wastewater in a continuous stirred-tank reactor
Anaerobic dechlorinating bioreactor culture enriched from river sediment
Anaerobic enrichment culture from a deep subsurface sample (2000 m below the surface) taken from a core hole at the Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA
Anaerobic lagoon of a dairy wastewater treatment plant in Colombia
Anaerobic lagoon of dairy wastewater treatment plant in Colombia
Anaerobic sediment from Great Salt Lake, USA
Anaerobic sediments of a mesophilic sulfur spring
Anaerobic top layer (5 to 10 cm) of sediment (depth, 50 cm) in a eutrophic freshwater pond at the Dekkerswald Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Anaerobic-aerobic sequential batch reactor under enhanced biological phosphorus removal conditions for wastewater treatment
Andaman Sea near Thailand at a depth of 2-5 m
Anoxic hypolimnion of Ace Lake Antarctica
Anoxic sulfide containing water 19.5 m below surface of meromictic Lake Blankvann in Norway
Aquifer sediment collected at a depth of 18 feet
Arabian Sea at a depth of 50m on November 1995
Arsenate treated wood pier that was in a brackish estuary (Eel Pond) in Woods Hole Massachusetts
Asynchronous bloodstages of clone 15cy1 of the ANKA strain of P. berghei
Atrazine-contaminated soil in South Dakota
Autopsy sample from the brain of a fatal melioidosis encephalomyelitis case at the Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory, Australia
Axilla of bone marrow transplant patient
Ayakekumsalt lake in Xinjian China at an altitude of 3880m
Bacterial bloom in the brine under trona from alkaline equatorial Lake Magadi in Kenya
Bacterial community constructed from composting processes
Bacterial microflora of the marine dinoflagellate Scrippseilla trochidea
Barrel fermentation from Napa Valley USA
Beach sand at a depth of 1 meter from Sweetings Cay in the Bahamas
Beppu Hot Springs in the geothermal area of Kyushu Island Japan
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site (BATS)
Black smoker chimney at the Kairei field in the Central Indian Ridge
Black smoker chimneys on East Pacific Rise (9deg 50.4', 104deg 17.4' W) at a depth of 2500m
Black smoker from the Gulf of California at a depth of 2000m
Black smoker in the bay near Naples Italy in 1986
Black smoker wall, 3500m depth; Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Black, anaerobic mud of Canale Grande, Venice, Italy
Blade of grass from Raritan River NJ USA
Blanes Bay in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 100m
Blood culture of a healthy baby born at term
Blood of a 30 year old male patient in Kongsvinger Norway
Blood of a human patient who was having a renal transplant
Blood of an infected patient in northern Italy in 1945
Body lice collected from homeless people living in France
Boiling marine water hole in Maronti Beach, Ischia, Italy
Botany Bay near Sydney Australia from surface waters
Bovine isolate obtained in South Dakota, USA
Brazil outbreak strain from clinical specimen
Bubo aspirate from a 10 year old female patient on 2004
Calcite Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park
Campus of Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, New Jersey
Case of febrile gastrointestinal illness among students and staff who had eaten at one of two school cafeterias in Northern Italy in 1997
Case of typhoid fever in Bangladesh in 1998
Case of typhoid fever in Morocco in 2000
Case of typhoid fever in Senegal in 2001
Case of typhoid fever in Vietnam in 2004
Cases of diarrhea in children in Bangladesh
Cattle tick Amblyomma variegatum collected in Ethiopia
Cave wall in St. Kitts in Eastern Caribbean
Cecal contents from Mus musculus strain C57BL/6J
Cecal contents of seven wild-type C57BL/6J mice fed different types of diets
Central north Pacific Ocean at a depth of 5800m
Cerebro-spinal fluid of a late onset neonatal meningitis case in France in 1999
Cerebrospinal fluid a woman who had suffered severe weight loss in Germany
Cerebrospinal fluid of a child with meningitis
Cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with neuroborreliosis in Germany
Chemocline waters of a permanently ice-covered lake in the Taylor Valley in Antarctica
Child's conjunctiva during a trachoma vaccine trial in Taiwan in 1965
Chinese patient in Burma who had glanders in 1944
Chinese virulent strain isolated from fata cases of STSS in 1998
Chinese virulent strain isolated from fata cases of STSS in 2005
Clay soil near Hildenborough in UK in 1946
Clinical isolate from a Western Australian outbreak
Clinical specimen in Saudi Arabia in 1910
Clinical strain isolated in 1996 in Osaka Japan
Clinical strain isolated isolated from a traveler returning to Japan from Singapore in 1983
Clothing factory worker from the Kentucky/Tennessee
Coastal Pacific Ocean Newport Oregon at a depth of 10 meters
Coastal Pacific Ocean near Newport Oregon at a depth of 10m
Coastal area near Newport Oregon at a depth of 10m
Coastal area of Newport Oregon at a depth of 10m
Coastal bacterioplankton, Puget Sound, Washington
Coastal pacific ocean near Newport Oregon at a depth of 10m
Coastal region near Newport Oregon at a depth of 10m
Coastal sea water near a French Antarctic station
Coastal seawater collected off Georgia in December 1997
Coastal seawater from Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Coastal solfataric thermal vent at Kodakara-Jima Island in Japan in 1993
Commercial yogurt in 1974 in the United Kingdom
Common laboratory strain, substrain of K-12. It was derived from DH10 (which was derived from MC1061 which in turn was derived from M182)
Compost biofilter from a water pollution treatment plant in Los Angeles
Concentrated picoplankton cells from Monterey Bay, California. Four environmental genomic libraries were made from four depths: EB000: 3m depth, Station M2 (36.70N, 122.40W), collected 3/17/99.
Concentrated seawater collected from the German Bight in the North Sea
Conidia (asexual spores) of Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei DH14 that were collected from infected barley; the conidia were not older than 24 hours
Contaminated sediments beneath a leaking high-level radioactive waste tank at the DOE Hanford Site
Copper-contaminated sediment from a lake in Michigan
Cotton-waste composts used as mushroom cultivation in South Korea
Creosote-contaminated soil from the Champion International Superfund site in Libby Montana
Crystallizer pond CR30 in the multi-pond saltern "Bras del Port" located in Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain, 380 12' N, 00 36' W) in November 2002
Cuatro Cienegas Valley in Coahuila Mexico
Cultivated soil from a vegetable field in Japan
Cyanobacterial mat, mud and water; Kamchatka Peninsula, Geyzer Valley
Decaying Spartina alterniflora a salt marsh cord grass in the Chesapeake Bay
Decaying ascidian (Didemnum sp.); Mexico, La Paz
Deep marine sediment from the Nankai Trough off the coast of Japan
Deep sea hydrothermal vent on the East Pacific Rise
Deep sea hydrothermal vents; Mexico, Gulf of California, Guaymas Basin
Deep sea mud at 1050m depth from the Iheya ridge near Okinawa Japan in 1998
Deep sea sediments (252 m below sea level) of Peru Margin collected during Leg 201 of the Ocean Drilling Program
Deep subsurface location at the Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA
Deep-sea hot vent; 130N, East Pacific Rise
Deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected at a vent site at 14 degrees 45' N, 44 degrees 59' W on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected on the East Pacific Rise at a depth of 2600m
Deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 3000m
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Iheya Ridge in the Okinawa Trough Japan
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Suiyo Seamount in the Izu-Bonin Arc in Japan
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney; Mid-Atlantic Ridge 23022'N-44056'W
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent from Pacific Ocean Axial volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Iheya North field in the Mid-Okinawa
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent site at the Kairei vent field on the Central Indian Ridge Indian Ocean
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent, collected at the Rainbow vent field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (36016'N, 33054'W).
Deep-sea sediment collected in the west Pacific
Deep-sea sediments at the Hatoma Knoll in the Mid-Okinawa Trough hydrothermal field in Japan
Deeper 1mm depth lower-light regions of the stromatolite mat
Depth of 10m at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series station in the Sargasso Sea
Derivative of the laboratory strain A3(2)
Derived from a toluene-degrading isolate
Desert soil sample in Gansu Province, north-west China
Dilutional cloning from the original Lyme-disease tick isolate
Drug-susceptible strain that has caused a large proportion of new tuberculosis cases in New York
Duck liver paste during a botulism outbreak at a hotel in the Scottish highlands in 1922.
During an outbreak of listeriosis aming patients with AIDS in California in 1985
Early 1950's from a 2-3 butanediol fermentation
Early 1980's from the surface waters of a freshwater dam in Queensland Australia
Eastern Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 1m
Elkhorn Slough an estuary of Monterey Bay
Embryonated chicken eggs from a triturated pool of unfed adult Dermacentor variabilis ticks collected from vegetation near Fayetteville Arkansas USA in 1966
English Channel site L4 (50.25 N, 4.216 W) and on the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
Enriched cells originate from Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA,. Physically purified cells grown in a continuous-flow enrichment culture.
Enteric septicemia of catfish outbreak in a commercial catfish pond in Louisiana
Environmental isolate from northern Australia
Environmental samples from four Oceanic regions collected over a decase
Epidemic strain from Boston Children's Hospital. Isolated from the same patient as strain BCH12
Epidemic strain from Manchester, England
Equatorial Pacific at a depth of 83m on April 1992
Estuarine sediments in the Colne estuary
European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax from the Red Sea
External auditory canal of an otorrheic child in Pittsburgh who had spontaneously perforated his tympanic membrane
External cuticule of Crustaceans, Amphipods, Isopods, Copepods and Insects
External ear discharge of a spontaneously perforated tympanic membrane of a child in Pittsburgh
Extreme microbial habitats from 20 different sites at Yellowstone National Park (YNP)
Faeces of a healthy man in 2000 in France
Faeces of a healthy man in the 1980s in France
Fecal sample from patients with Crohn's disease
Feces of a 4-year old patient with Guillain-Barre syndrome
Feces of a non-methane-excreting human subject
Feces of a patient with bloody diarrhea in Denmark
Feces of a patient with diarrhea in South Africa
Feces of an 8-year-old boy in China with acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) form of GBS
Feces of an 9-year-old girl with diarrhea in Minnesota in 1981
Feces of patient with hemolytic uremic syndrome
Forest soil near the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts
Fossil remains from Lake Taimyr in Siberia
Fracture water from a borehole at a depth of 2.8 km in a South African gold mine
Freshwater wetland soils, including from the Florida Everglades, and North Carolina pocosin bogs, and riverine and non-riverine swamps
Garden soil in Connecticut in USA in 1924
Gasoline and/or ethanol contaminated soil in Brazil
Gastrointestinal tracts of South American squirrel monkeys
Geothermal marine area near Vulcano Italy
Geothermally heated sea floor at Vulcano Island Italy
Geothermally heated seafloor in the Azores
Gill tissue of a wood-boring mollusc Lyrodus pedicellatus
Gills of the deep-sea vent hydrothermal mussel Bathymodiolus brevior from the Lau Basin at Southwestern Pacific Ocean, between 1832 and 1887 metres (latitude, 22o329S; longitude, 176o439W)
Goat caseous granulomas found in Bahia state
Gold mine wastewater from the Ballarat Goldfields in Australia in 1996
Gotland Deep an anoxic basin in the central Baltic Sea in 1986 from a depth of 120-130m
Granular sludge from an anaerobic sludge bed reactor
Gray marmot Marmota baibacina by Chinese plague experts during daily surveillance in Wenquan in China
Groundwater seeping from the Soudan Mine in Minnesota
Hallow submarine hydrothermal system at Vulcano Italy
Hands of a hospital worker, who was the source for an outbreak of infection in a Mississippi community hospital in 2001
Hatsushima island in Sagami Bay in Japan
Healthy patients and patients with cystic fibrosis
Heavy metal-contaminated sediment collected at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on the San Francisco Bay
Hell's Gate geothermal area in New Zealand
High-level radioactive waste cell at the Savannah River Site in Aiken of South Carolina in 2002
High-light region of stromatolites less than 30micrometer from the surface/water interface of the mat
Himalayan marmot Marmota himalaya by Chinese plague experts during daily surveillance in Hetian county in China
Hindgut of the cockroach Periplaneta americana
Home-prepared liver paste involved in an outbreak of foodborne botulism on the island of Langeland in Denmark in 1958
Hot alkaline spring, from Hveragerdi, Iceland
Hot dog during an outbreak of listeriosis that occurred in multiple states in the USA in 1998-1999
Hot spring at Norris Basin Yellowstone National Park
Hot spring at Pisciarelli Solfatara Naples Italy
Hot spring from Hverdagerdi-Hengil area in Iceland
Hot spring from Kanagawa, Ohwakudani, Japan on 9/1993
Hot spring from Obsidian Pool at Yellowstone Natl. Park
Hot spring from Sao Miguel island, Azores
Hot spring on the Kamchatka Penninsula in the Russian Far East
Hot spring on the Kamchatka Penninsula, in the Russian Far East
Hot spring, Uzon volcano caldera; USSR, Kamchatka
Hot sulfur spring in Yellowstone National Park
Human feces from autistic child at Rush Childrens Hospital, Chicago
Human feces of an autistic child at Los Angeles, USA
Human high vaginal swab in United Kingdom
Human isolate from the Nestle strain collection
Human isolate that is unable to colonize the intestinal tract of mice
Human sputum of a 82-year-old woman with pulmonary disease
Hydrocarbon-degrading enrichment cultures obtained from Antarctic coastal marine environments (Rod Bay, Ross Sea)
Hydrothermal marine sediment from Vulcano Island in Italy
Hydrothermal sediments; Iheya North in the Mid-Okinawa Trough, Japan
Hydrothermal vent at Okinawa Trough in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 1395m
Hydrothermal vent sediment at a depth of 1650 meters
Hydrothermally heated black smoker wall at the TAG site at the Mid Atlantic Ridge (depth 3650 meters)
Hydrothermally heated black smoker wall at the TAG site at the Mid Atlantic Ridge depth 3650m
In 1965 from a child?s conjunctiva during a trachoma vaccine trial in Taiwan
In 1997 in the UK from a cow suffering necrotic lesions in lung and bronchomediastinal lymph nodes
In 1998 from a naturally infected Californian grapevine
Industrial sludge contaminated with 1,4-dioxane
Industrial wastewater treatment plant from Germany
Infected cattle in the United Kingdom in 1935
Infected pig in Lindoia do Sul Santa Catarina Brazil
Infected twigs derived from the sweet orange strain Valencia in Brazil
Inflected cauliflower in Sussex UK in 1958
Intertidal mud from Don river in Scotland
Intertidal sands near Port Aransas, Gulf of Mexico in Texas
Intertidal waters off Long Island in 1961
Iron-rich mat from School Street Marsh in Woods Hole MA
Isolated in Vero cell culture at 34 C by Karl Poetter and Chip Pretzman; spaghetti forms seen
Juan de Fuca Ridge Middle Valley Vent at a depth of 2400 meters
Kettering Research Laboratory in Ohio by M Lalonde in 1978
Kieler Bucht (a fiord near the city of Kiel in Germany)
Kudu isolate obtained in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Laboratory strain probably from foodborne botulism cases in the western US
Lagoons from East Crimea, Arabat spit, USSR
Lau Basin hydrothermal vent area in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 2200 meters
Lesion site of a dead turkey with colibacillosis
Light organs of the squid Euprymna scolopes
Live vaccine strain was created in the 1960's in the USA
Loihi Seamount Hawaii at a depth of 1100 meters
Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park
Lung of a pig from a Chinese commercial pig farm in 2003
Lymph node of a patient with oculo-glandular tularemia
Lymph node of child with disseminated infection
MDR strain from one of two distinct lineages of the Newport serovar
Madagascar in 1995 from a human case of bubonic plague
Maize leaves from a plant naturally infected in Costa Rica
Male patient in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1998
Marine dinoflagellates from the Bay of Tokyo
Marine hot spring from Shiashkoten island in USSR
Marine sediment from Cayman Islands, USA
Marine sediment from Cheju Island, Republic of Korea
Marine sediment from hot vent of tidal zone; Papua New Guinea, Matupi Harbour
Marine sediment in the Mediterranean sea near Italy
Marine sediments off of the coast of Svalbard
Marine sediments taken off the coast of Washington, USA
Mediterranean seawater near a petroleum refinery
Methanogenic mixed culture growing with acetone
Microaerobic zones from freshwater sediments
Microbial and viral communities from stromatolites
Microbial and viral communities from water below the boundary layer of multiple atolls within the Northern Line Islands
Microbial and viral communities were collected from hybrid striped bass (gut contents or slime layer) at Kent SeaTech
Microbial community colonizing the accessory nidamental gland of the squid Loligo pealei
Microbial mat community in Crimea, Russia
Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent chimney
Middle ear effusion of a child in Missouri with acute otitis media
Middle ear fluid of a child with acute otitis media
Middle-ear effusion of a child in Pittsburgh
Mildly toxigenic strain of the El Tor biotype, serotype Ogawa
Mixed-culture enriched from sewage using the chelating agent EDTA
Mmultidrug-resistant isolate from a bloodstream infection of a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Monoclonal culture derived from a fusiform cell in May 2003 from strain CCMP632
Mud from alkaline Lake Khadyn, Central Asia, Tuva
Mud of a canal in Delft, The Netherlands
Mud samples from Lago del Fusaro Lake in Naples Italy
Mud taken at a depth of 5110m from the Ryukyu Trench in the Philippine Sea
Multi-drug-resistant isolate from a chicken carcass from an inspected slaughter plant
Mutant derivative of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA01
NW Mediterranean Sea from a sample taken at a depth of 1m
Nasopharynx of a child who came down with pneumonia after participating in a pneumococcal vaccine trial at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Field Research Center (FRC), Well FW-010
Near-shore anoxic basin of Saanich Inlet of British Columbia Canada
Noncontaminated creek sediment in June 2002 near Seoul South Korea
Nontoxigenic environmental isolate from the Gulf Coast
North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 30m on April 1990
North Inlet Saltmarsh Estuary near Georgetown SC
North Pacific Ocean at depths of 10m to 4000m at the Hawaii open-ocean time-series station
Northwest Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 1m
Ocean shelf off the coast of Concepcion Chile
October 1995 in Akershus Norway, from the periodontal pocket of a 76 year old female patient with marginal periodontitis
Oil reservoir formation water taken at a depth of 2000 m
Oligotrophic edge of the California Current at 95m depth in 1993
Oocysts were obtained and purified from ground matter of Aedes albopictus adults maintained in a mosquito colony at the Chang Gung University
Organic waste leachate, from a canning factory in Hoopeston, East Central Illinois
Oriental vole Eothenomys miletus by Chinese plague experts during daily surveillance in Jianchuan county in China
Originally isolated by Alexander Fleming in 1929 as Micrococcus lysodeikticus
Outbreak of campylobacteriosis in Minnesota USA due to the consumption of contaminated milk
Outbreak of juvenile oyster disease in France
Ovarian tissue of a wild-caught Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito
Oxic water column of the Gotland Deep in the Baltic Sea at a depth of 30m
PCB-containing landfill near in upper New York
Pacific Ocean at 288Km from the coast of San Diego
Pacific Ocean marine sediments at a depth of 630m
Patient in Oklahoma, US, with severe ehrlichiosis
Patient in the United Kingdom who had gastritis before 1987
Patient on an army base in Arkansas in 1990
Patient who suffered severe inhalational anthrax in 2001 from West Palm Beach Florida
Patient with H. pylori-associated atrophic gastritis which later progressed to gastric carcinoma
Patient with H. pylori-associated gastric carcinoma
Patient with Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Patient with disseminated gonococcal infection
Patient with duodenal ulcer in USA in 1994
Patient with inflammatory diarrhea in Thailand
Patient with intravascular catheter-associated sepsis
Patient with severe CDAD from Quebec Canada
Patient with severe leptospirosis during an epidemic in 1996
Patientin the USA who died of pneumonic plague after acquiring the disease from an infected cat
Patients whose airways were colonized with P. aeruginosa during mechanical ventilation
Patients with diarrhea in Bangladesh in 2001
Pediatric endophthalmitis case at Dean McGee Eye Institute in Oklahoma City
Pediatric patient with otitis media from Columbus Children's Hospital
Periodontal pocket of an adult patient with periodontal disease in 1995
Persistent environmental isolate from Chesapeake Bay
Pharyngeal membrane of a 72-year-old unimmunized UK female with clinical diphtheria acquired during a short Baltic cruise in 1997
Pharyngeal mucosa of a 5 year old male patient with acute bronchitis in Japan in 1994
Pharyngeal smear of a Japanese patient in 1982
Pink filamentous cell masses in the upper outflow channel of Octopus hot sprig in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Potomac river downstream of Washington DC in 1987
Powdered milk formula fed to a hospitalized neonate that developed an infection
Prochloron-dominated colonial ascidian Lissoclinum patella off the tropical coast of the Palau islands
Proctodeal segment 3 (P3) gut lumen fluid collected from the termite Nasutitermes sp from Costa Rica (N10.11.260 W083.51.345) at 310 m altitude
Production fluid of the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata Japan
Production water from an oil well, Norway
Production waters of a North Sea oil reservoir
Production waters of the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata Japan
Prydz Bay, Antarctica from a sea-ice algal assemblage by enrichment on marine agar
Pus collected from a blister on the abdomen of an 8 year old male patient on 2005
Pus of a Japanese male baby with a surgical wound infection that did not respond to vancomycin in 1997
Quebec, Montreal from a patient with severe Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease
Rattus flavipectus by Chinese plague experts during daily surveillance in Cangyuan county in China
Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town South Africa
Red portion of the bacteriome from Homalodisca coagulata adults collected in a lemon orchard
Rhipicephalus turanicus ticks collected near Marseille France
Rhizosphere of a native tall grass prairie in Iowa
Rib bone of a gray whale carcass at 1674 meters depth in the Santa Cruz Basin of the Pacific Ocean
Rice field of Camargue (South of France) in 1982
Rice roots that had been inoculated with strain A15 in a rice paddy in China
Richmond Mine, Iron Mountain CA from the Ultra Back A (UBA) site in June 2005
Richmond mine at Iron Mountain California
Rivers and estuaries of Indonesia Malaysia and India
Riverslea oil field in the Bowen-Surat basin, Australia
Root nodule of Machaerium lunatum in French Guiana
Root nodule of the legume Mimosa pudica in Taiwan
Root nodules of Casuarina cunninghamiana in 1983 at Harvard Forest
Rumen contents of New Zealand cattle grazing fresh forage
Russian Bol'shaya Kolopatkaya river, 70 N, 151 E"
Rye grass and clover pasture in Victoria, Australia
Salinas grandes from Andes highlands in Jujuy Argentina
Saline liquid found 11-24 m below the surface within a forty thousand-year-old Siberian permafrost at the Kolyma-Indigirka lowland in Siberia
Saline sediment from Retba Lake in Senegal Africa
Salmon eggs associated with a foodborne case of botulism in Alaska
Salt marsh sediment near Pawley Island South Carolina
Same dust as the pneumonia-causing strain B. cereus
Sandy beach on Iriomote-jima Island Japan
Sargasso Sea at a depth of 100m on July 1992
Sargasso Sea at a depth of 90m on July 1993
Sargasso Sea at the BATS station at a depth of 10m
Sea floor of a solfataric environment at 9m depth off the shore of Sao Miguel Island Azores
Sea ice off Point Barrow in northern Alaska
Sea water of tidal flat sediment of the Yellow Sea in South Korea
Seawater collected from 10m depth at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series station in the Sargasso Sea
Seawater collected from a depth of 10m at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series station in the Sargasso Sea
Seawater from the scallop Pecten maximus in Spain
Seawater obtained at 3500m depth from the Urania Basin in the Mediterranean Sea
Seawater obtained at a depth of 2-5m from the Skagerrak Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean
Seawater sediment sample in the North Sea
Seawater taken at a depth of 10m from the Sargasso Sea
Seawater taken at a depth of 15 meters from the Mediterranean Sea
Seawater taken at a depth of 2-5m from the North Atlantic Ocean
Seawater taken at a depth of 2-5m from the north Atlantic Ocean
Sediment at depth of 215m from an unexploded-ordinance-dumping site at Halifax
Sediment from an agricultural settling lagoon
Sediment from the Arthur Kill, NJ/NY waterway
Sediment of alkaline lake in Wadi el Natrun, Egypt
Sediment of the Emerald Basin at 215m depth offshore of Halifax Harbour in the Atlantic Ocean
Sediments at a depth of 4 meters in the harbor of Eckernford, Germany on the Baltic Sea
Seep water masses of the North Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vent
Self-heating coal refuse pile in southwestern Indiana
Sewage sludge digestor in Urbana Illinois
Sewage sludge in 1971 in Urbana Illinois
Shallow hydrothermal vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece
Shallow marine deposits of the Amazon River delta off of the coast of Brazil
Shallow marine hydrothermal system of the Kolbeinsey Ridge, north of Iceland
Shallow marine solfataric region at Vulcano Island Italy
Shallow submarine vent system at the Kolbeinsey ridge Iceland
Shallow waters from Salton Sea California
Silicate sediments in a bay off Capo di Sant' Andrea, Elba Italy
Single cell amplification from Human subgingival crevice
Skin lesion from a Lyme disease patient in Europe in 1993
Skin of a retail chicken by the Food Safety Research Information Office
Slightly alkaline Tsuetae Hot spring in Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan
Sludge from a sewage treatment plant in Norman Oklahoma
Sludge sample from anaerobic mesophilic digester (7000m3) at the Evry wastewater treatment plant, 35Km south of Paris, France
Soil at a petrochemical factory in Tatarstan Russia
Soil contaminated with gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane in Japan
Soil contaminated with halogenated (chlorine-containing) hydrocarbons
Soil contaminated with tetrachloroethene in Japan
Soil enriched with acetamide in Delft in the Netherlands
Soil from the Tama graveyard Tokyo in 1966
Soil in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Soil sample collected in Gerenzano Italy
Soil sample collected in Shizuoka Prefecture Japan
Soils at Kanagawa, Japan in the late 1980's
Soils collected from different sites within the Western Hemisphere (Brazil, Canada, Florida, and Illinois)
Solar salt facility, Netherlands Antilles
Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sperm and white blood cells of a single Human individual
Spontaneous nalidixic acid-resistant derivative of virulent strain 197
Spontaneously heated ore deposit from Eastern Kazakhstan
Sputum of an immunodeficient patient with recurrent bronchitis
Sputum of woman with cavitary disease of both upper lungs
Stable Isotope Probing with C1 compounds
Stem nodule of Aeschynomene sensitiva in Senegal in 1991
Stool samples from an outbreak that involved three individuals in Nebraska in 1996
Stools of a patient presenting with scarlet-like fever in the Primorski region of the former USSR on 1996
Strait of Georgia, adjacent to Powell River, BC, on 13-Jul-2004, Latitude of 49.86 and Longitude of -124.60
Streptomycin resistant derivative of strain 2011
Subsurface hot water stream of the Hishikari gold mine in Japan
Subsurface sediments collected in Bemidji Minnesotta
Subtropical Pacific Ocean waters at 50 meters depth
Sulfidic coastal sediments in Woods Hole
Surface of the marine algae Ulva lactuca in Australia
Surface seawater collected near Plymouth England
Surface seawater obtained off the coast of Georgia
Surface sediment from the LaBrea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
Surface sediment in harbor of Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Surface sediments of a hydrocarbon-contaminated ditch in Norman Oklahoma
Surface soil (0-10 cm) from a farm in Waseca County Minnesota in 2001
Surface water in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean
Surface water of the western Atlantic Ocean
Surface water off the Western Antarctic Penninsula
Surface waters from Eeast Mediterranean Sea (32.81N, 34.69E)
Surface waters from Plum Island Ecosystem-LTER USA
Surface waters of Coastal Pacific Ocean Newport Oregon
Surface waters of Kiel Fjord in the Baltic Sea
Surface waters of the North Atlantic Ocean
Surface waters of the North Sea near Helgoland Germany
Surface waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
Swab of a zebra carcass in Ethosha National Park in Namibia in 1996
Swedish patient with chronic atrophic gastritis
Sweet gum stem wood buried in surface soil
Terrestrial hot spring in the Philippines
Terrestrial hydrothermal source in the Uzon caldera on the Kamchatka peninsula
Thermal pond in the Pisciarelli Solfatara in Italy
Thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park
Thermal vent in Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming
Thermally polluted industrial runoff in the United Kingdom
Thermophilic spring; Kamchatka peninsula, Uzon vulcano, Russia
Thermophilic upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor
Three fecal samples from two healthy human individuals
Throat-sputum isolate from Newcastle, UK
Top 2mm of microbial mat samples from Octopus Spring Yellowstone National Park
Toxic-metal contaminated site Shipyard Creek Charleston South Carolina
Tuberculosis patients during a TB epidemic in the Western Cape of South Africa
University of Washington student with acute respiratory tract infection in 1983
Uranium bioremediation study site in Rifle Colorado
Urethral specimen from a male patient with nongonococcal urethritis
Urine of a nursing home patient with a long term (>30 day) indwelling urinary catheter
Urine of a patient with urinary tract infection in France in the 1980s
Urogenital tract of a 34-year old female who experienced a spontaneous abortion during month 6 of pregnancy
Vaginal microflora from a healthy woman in Goteborg Sweden 1998
Vestfold Hills in Antarctica at a depth of 24 meters
Vi-80 Neanderthal bone from Vindija Croatia
Viral and microbial freshwater metagenomes collected from different fish ponds at Kent SeaTech (Salton, CA)
Viral and microbial metagenomes from Porites compressa during the following stressor experiments: temperature, dissolved organic carbon, reduced pH, and nutrients.
Viral and microbial metagenomes from salterns of differing salinities
Vomit of a person having eaten cooked rice in London UK
Walls of an active deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney on the East Pacific Rise at 9 degrees 50'N
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 1978
Water and flocculent from an artificial iron seep in Ithaca, NY
Water from a geothermal power plant in Iceland
Water from the Pettaquamscutt Estuary in Rhode Island
Water sample from Saint John's Island in the Caribbean
Water sample from a hot spring runoffs on the Island of Sco Miguel in the Azores, Portugal
Water samples from Chesapeake in September on 2002
Western subtropical Atlantic surface waters near Bermuda in 1999
White blood cells from L1 Dominette 01449
Wisconsin from a wilted geranium that had been imported from Kenya
Woman with a case of cystitis with bacteriuria
Woman with uncomplicated acute cystitis in Minnesota in 1999
X-ray irradiated strain in Marburg in 1947
Young shoots of Pinot Noir, clone ENTAV115
captive-born descendant of chimpanzees from the West Africa
case of pseudomembraneous colitis in Marne, France
cells grown under 10 different conditions
clinical isolate from a patient in Thailand
clinical serotype c strain isolated in Japan in 2002
clonal culture of this dinoflagellate in Scotland 2001
coastal bacterioplankton community from SIMO Dean Creek sampling site on Sapelo Island, Georgia (81.26990W, 31.39290N) in November 2005
collected between 9deg N and 13deg N of the East Pacific Rise (EPR) hydrothermal vent system during the HOT-96 cruise
creosote contaminated site near Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Myojin Knoll in the Ogasawara-Bonin Arc, Japan
environment in Michigan that could dechlorinate polychlorinated ethenes
fecal samples from 13 healthy individuals of various ages, including unweaned infants
home-made koumiss (fermented mare's milk) in Inner Mongolia, China
hot spring microbial mats and volcanic soil
human case at Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County, California, in 1988
initial event of Legionellosis in Philadelphia
low passage strain derived from the spirochete isolate CA-11-90
marine environment near the coast of Texas
microbial community of the chicken cecum in response to Campylobacter jejuni challenge
microbial mat core taken from two different hot springs in Yellowstone National Park
mixed species mosquitos collected in California
nasopharynx of a child who came down with pneumoniae after participating in a pneumococcal vaccine trial at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
nasopharynx of a child who participated in a pneumococcal vaccine trial at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
naturally-infected honey bee colony at Weslaco, Texas
newly emerging epidemic strain in France
normalized cDNA from whole larvae, pupae, and adults collected in Aland, Finland
normalized cDNA libraries from asymptomatic inflorescences and stromata
outbreak of psittacosis in Japan in 2001
representative strain of race 6 isolated in the Philippines
rhizoplane sample of a corn senescent root system in Cote Saint Andre, France
sediments of Treshchinny Spring (Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia)
skin in a clinical case in Long Island, NY
soil in New York State by alkaline enrichment cultures
spines of the diatom Chaetoceros taken at a depth of 5 meters at the ALOHA station in the North Pacific Ocean
stock collection at Iowa State University
surface water from the Penola Strait Antarctica
surface waters of several open ocean locations in the equatorial Atlantic and tropical South Pacific
three biofilm samples were collected within the drinking water networks of a town in the northwestern part of Germany in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
top oxic layer of a muddy sediment core, List, Sylt (55002'N, 8024'E) Germany, 19.10.2005
top oxic layer of a sandy sediment core, List, Sylt (55001'N, 8026'E) Germany, 19.10.2005
water sample collected off the Oregon coast