Comparison of polymerase chain reaction and bacterial culture for Salmonella detection in the Muscovy duck in Trinidad and Tobago Comparación de la reacción en cadena de la polimerasa y el cultivo bacteriano como métodos de detección de Salmonella en patos criollos en Trinidad y Tobago

• Main Authors: Joanne Rampersad, Jenelle Johnson, Gabriel Brown, Michael Samlal, David Ammons
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: Reacción en cadena de la polimerasa; Salmonella; Trinidad y Tobago; Polymerase chain reaction; Trinidad and Tobago; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad; Cadena; Orion
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/8c7deded11b84aa8ae4063a62a1ac421

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence and serovar identity of Salmonella, at the national level, in farmed Muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) in Trinidad and Tobago, and to compare the relative benefits of bacterial culture to those of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) fo...