The phrase "a collection of strains" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a group or assortment of different strains, often in contexts like biology, music, or culture.
Example: "The laboratory has developed a collection of strains that exhibit unique resistance to the disease."
Alternatives: "a variety of strains" or "a group of strains".
In a recent study, a group of Beijing strains characterized by RD181 deletion and polymorphisms in mutT4 and mutT2 appear to be predominant in a collection of strains isolated in Italy [18].
An MLST scheme developed for S. mutans, incorporating only house-keeping genes, and applied to a collection of strains isolated in Japan and Finland suggested that a strain possessing the serotype c antigen was the ancestral strain for all S. mutans [35].
Our laboratory is in the process of building a collection of strains which can potentially be biocontrol agents against AFs.
The strains were selected from a collection of strains isolated in the last 90 years, from various environments worldwide.
For comparison we included the same information for a collection of strains from colonized nonpregnant college students 18 19 years of age.
The result was a collection of strains harboring RNR3-GFP, RPL39pr-tdTomato, and either a unique nonessential gene deletion (xxxΔ) or a TS essential gene allele (xxx-TS).
In conclusion, tigecycline exhibited broad in vitro activity against a collection of MRSA strains collected in The Netherlands, including livestock-associated strains.
Next, the 26 polymorphic VNTR loci present in all strains were used for genotyping a collection of 61 strains.
The comparison of the IR spectra of the 13 strains from game animals with a collection of reference strains showed a clear separation in 2 main branches for the 2 species C. pseudotuberculosis and C. ulcerans.
Distribution of non-motile strains was also assessed in a collection of 148 strains representing the four genetic lineages (X. axonopodis pv. phaseoli GL1, GL2, GL3, and Xff) of the agents responsible for the common bacterial blight of bean.
A collection of ExPEC strains, intestinal pathogenic E. coli, and avian and human non pathogenic strains available at the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universität Berlin, was screened to determine the presence of the yqi gene among these strains.
