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How can a layperson get their hands on a specific stainstrain that's not readily available commercially?

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How can a layperson get their hands on a specific stain that's not readily available commercially?

I'm mostly interested to get my hands on L.plantarum D-103, but there are a few other strains as well. D-103 is e.g. mentioned here https://meridian.allenpress.com/jfp/article/80/10/1682/199965/Degradation-of-Histamine-by-Lactobacillus . It's commonly found in miso. My understanding is that the usual way is to find out an active culture collection like the ATCC, and the number that strain hast at that culture collection. But how do I find out this number? (I think it's called the type number). With D-103 specifically the problem seems to be that it's not available at any active culture collection. It's listed as IMAU70005 (I had to google for ages to figure this out, how would you guys figure this out?), but the IMAU is not an active culture collection. What do I do then? I'm not a biologist, just a lay person.