Abstract
The minutes of the meeting held in Freiburg, Germany on 2 and 4 September 2001 were approved [On, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52 (2002), 2339–2341]. However, an amendment to Minute 11 was tabled, in that it had also been suggested that a depository of strain DNA from fastidious species (notably Helicobacter spp.) would also facilitate taxonomic studies. P. Vandamme agreed to discuss this prospect with representatives of the World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC).