FIG. 5.
sea and sed expression levels in cheese. Data are expressed as the means of two biological repetitions. Gene expression levels were quantified using real-time RT-qPCR. Normalization was provided using the geometric mean expression levels of three reference genes (ftsZ, pta, and gyrB). The expression level at 2 h after inoculation of milk with 103 S. aureus CFU/ml was used as the calibrator. Vertical bars indicate standard deviations.