Abstract
Artisanal Minas Canastra Cheese (QMAC) is one of the best-known and most consumed artisanal cheeses in Brazil. The colonization of environments where raw milk is obtained, as well as the artisanal production environments at QMAC, by populations of Coagulase-Positive Staphylococci (ECP) is a notorious condition in this production system. Certain strains of ECP can potentially produce enter…