Salmonella from Farm to Table: Isolation, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Resistance of Salmonella from Commercial Broiler Supply Chain and Its Environment

Table 2

Comparison of conventional culturing method and PCR for detection of Salmonella in different poultry samples.

No.	Source of sample	Samples collected	XLD		XLT4		BGA		Genomic DNA + for hilA gene from TTB culture
			Suspicious growth	Sample tested positive by PCR	Suspicious growth	Sample tested positive by PCR	Suspicious growth	Sample tested positive by PCR
1	Hatchery	29	20	3	14	0	19	0	4
2	CBF	99	77	14	51	9	59	11	22
3	RMS	54	46	12	41	19	37	18	26
Grand total		182	143	29	106	28	115	29	52