Enrichment cultivation in detection of food-borne Salmonella

Food-borne Salmonellosis is a significant risk to public health. Despite wide variety of rapid molecular methods, the detection of Salmonella still requires at least one enrichment cultivation step. Altough the adjustment in the enrichment cultivation may significantly improve the sensitivity and specificity of Salmonella diagnostics, the majority of current research focuses on the development of novel detection methods adapting existing cultivation principles without consideration. However, the understanding of enrichment cultivation is essential for the success in detection. This review aims to summarize the main factors that affect the enrichment cultivation of food-borne Salmonella, in order to provide tools for further improvement of both enrichment and detection methods. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.