Bacterial strains commonly found in dairy products and used in this study to optimize and assess the specificity of the qPCR protocol for <i>L. lactis</i>.

a<p> D: strains from DISAFA Collection (University of Turin, Italy) isolated from dairy products; N: strains from International Collections.</p><p>Bacterial strains commonly found in dairy products and used in this study to optimize and assess the specificity of the qPCR protocol for <i>L. lactis</i>.