Plant phenolic extracts as an effective strategy to control Staphylococcus aureus , the dairy industry pathogen

This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (grant number SFRH/BPD/84488/2012) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 − Programa Operacional Regional do Norte, as also Pest-OE/AGR/UI0690/2013 to CIMO. The authors are also grateful to the Interreg Espana-Portugal for financial support through the project 0377_Iberphenol_6_E and to Ana Maria Carvalho for the collection and identification of the wild samples, chemically characterized in previous studies.