In some of the studied cheese-makers, the subdominant microbiota also included Stenotrophomonas (in all artisanal cheeses),Aeromonas (in cheese-makers A and B), Chryseobacterium (in cheese-makers B and C) Flavobacterium (only in cheese-maker C),Elizabethkingia (only in cheese-maker A) and Vagococcus (in the industrial unit only).