Affiliation:
1. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1225, USA
Abstract
Salmonella is the leading cause of foodborne illnesses in the United States, and Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) is the second most frequently isolated Salmonella serovar. Egg products are most often associated with outbreaks of SE infection. To prevent SE contamination of eggs, many producers are implementing flock inspections for SE at their facilities. A rapid and simple method for detecting SE in poultry environmental samples is critical for effective control of SE. In this study, the Reveal test for SE was compared with the conventional U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) culture method for detecting SE in naturally contaminated environmental samples. The efficacy of two enrichment media, tetrathionate broth (TT) and Rappaport-Vassiliadis medium (RV), and three selective plating media, brilliant green agar with novobiocin (BGN), xylose lysine tergitol 4 agar (XLT4), and bismuth sulfite agar (BS), also were compared for SE isolation. One hundred twenty-eight environmental drag swab samples were collected from two previously identified SE-positive chicken flocks in two U.S. states and analyzed in parallel using the Reveal test and the FDA culture method. Twenty-five samples (19.5%) yielded SE when the Reveal test was used, and 23 samples (18.0%) were positive for SE by the FDA culture method. No significant difference in efficacy (P = 0.527) was found between the two methods. The Reveal test had a sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 83, 94, and 92%, respectively. Overall, a significantly greater number of positive samples was obtained after enrichment in RV compared with TT. XLT4 and BGN were more efficient than BS for isolating SE. However, no single method or medium successfully recovered SE from all SE-positive environmental samples.
Publisher
International Association for Food Protection
Subject
Microbiology,Food Science
Cited by
7 articles.
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