“…The reports on the necessity for selective cultivation are controversial. Some detection methods allow the detection of Salmonella directly after cultivation in non-selective media Gibbs, Patterson, & Early, 1979;Löfström, Krause, Josefsen, Hansen, & Hoorfar, 2009;Matias et al, 2010;Tatavarthy et al, 2009). However, several case studies have shown that selective enrichment cultivation enhances the accuracy of molecular detection (Myint, Johnson, Tablante, & Heckert, 2006;Upadhyay et al, 2010).…”