“…It has also been shown that certain extracts of antioxidant tea inhibitors inhibit some food-borne pathogenic microorganisms such as Bacillus cereus (Almajano et al, 2008;Si et al, 2006), Staphylococcus aureus Si et al, 2006;Taguri et al, 2004), Vibrio cholerae (Taguri et al, 2004), Listeria monocytogenes Si et al, 2006), Escherichia coli (Cho et al, 2007;Si et al, 2006), Salmonella typhimurium (Si et al, 2006), Salmonella enteritidis , Micrococcus luteus y Pseudomona aeruginosa (Almajano et al, 2008); and that in particular green tea catechins may decrease the resistance of S. aureus to antibiotics such as oxacillin (Stapleton et al, 2004).…”