Division of Pathogen Resource Management, Center for Public Vaccine Development and Support, Korea National Institute of Health, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju-si, South Korea.
Biopreserv Biobank. 2021 Dec;19(6):511-524. doi: 10.1089/bio.2020.0147. Epub 2021 May 4.
The National Culture Collection for Pathogens (NCCP) in the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) is in charge of the collection, quality control, and commercialization of pathogens and of information on pathogens that cause infectious diseases, and distributes them to be utilized for promoting public health and the health care industry. Since the NCCP Task Force was established in 2009 and the law for collection, management, and exploitation of pathogen resources became effective in 2017, NCCP has been responsible for the deposition, registration, and preservation of pathogen resources. Herein, we provide information on the recent status of pathogen resource distribution over the past 5 years and pathogen resources that are available for distribution presently. Within the past 5 years, the numbers of pathogen resources distributed were 1659, 1823, 1457, 1156, and 1706 in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively. In addition, more pathogens were distributed in February, March, September, and October than in other months. When categorized by the type of institution, profit organizations (3069) requested more pathogen resources than national and public research institutes (2291). Furthermore, based on the purpose of distribution, 440 cases were for vaccine or therapeutic development, 3041 for diagnostic technology development, 2487 for education, and 1134 for quality control. Based on these findings, we publicized the information on the distribution of pathogen resources to encourage their widespread use in infectious disease research and public health.
韩国疾病管理厅（KDCA）的国家病原体收藏中心（NCCP）负责病原体的收集、质量控制和商业化，以及传染病病原体信息的收集，并将其分发以促进公共卫生和医疗保健行业的发展。自 2009 年成立 NCCP 工作组以及 2017 年病原体资源的收集、管理和利用法生效以来，NCCP 一直负责病原体资源的存放、登记和保存。在此，我们提供了过去 5 年中病原体资源分配的最新情况以及目前可供分配的病原体资源信息。在过去的 5 年中，2015 年、2016 年、2017 年、2018 年和 2019 年，病原体资源的分配数量分别为 1659、1823、1457、1156 和 1706。此外，2 月、3 月、9 月和 10 月的病原体资源分配量多于其他月份。按机构类型分类，盈利组织（3069）比国家和公共研究机构（2291）要求更多的病原体资源。此外，根据分配目的，440 例用于疫苗或治疗开发，3041 例用于诊断技术开发，2487 例用于教育，1134 例用于质量控制。基于这些发现，我们公布了病原体资源分配的信息，以鼓励在传染病研究和公共卫生中广泛使用。
