5. Full Shipping Address The requester should meet the following requirements for authorship, acknowledgements, and handling of the strains.
5.1. Collaboration of the project and authorship If requester or principal investigator of the project wants to include any responsible person(s) of ABB in the list of co-authors based on collaboration of the project, requester should obtain advanced agreement from ABB for the plan. For this purpose, requester could send an e-mail to Dr. So Hyun Kim (shkim@ansorp.org) or Prof. Jae-Hoon Song (songjh@skku.edu or jhsong@ansorp.org) when Strains Request Form is sent. 5.2. Acknowledgements Please be advised that it is required to acknowledge ABB in any publications, abstracts, or oral/poster presentations as follows : “Theisolate(s) was (were) obtained from Asian Bacterial Bank (ABB) of the Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases (APFID)”.
5.3. Responsibilities of handling bacterial strains When requester receive the bacterial strains from ABB, he or she should be totally responsible for the handling of the strains according to the international regulation. ABB is not responsible for any problems or legal issues with regard to the handling or transportation of these isolates. Requester should use these strains only for research purposed as indicated in the Strains Request Form. These strains should not be used for commercial purposes.