“…Pre-enrichment of samples is thus necessary to lower the detection limit and dilute any inhibitory substances present in the samples. Most PCR assays carried out currently include a minimum of 6 to 8 h pre-cultivation step (Ellingson et al, 2004;Fratamico, 2003;Guo et al, 2000;Myint et al, 2006;Oliveira et al, 2002;Oliveira et al, 2003;Patel et al, 2006;Wang and Yeh, 2002) that can increase the sensitivity to one digit number of CFU, which is much better than the immunoassays that preenrich the samples for 24 to 30 h but still obtain minimum detection limits of 10 3 CFU (Soumet et al, 1999(a);Liu et al, 2001;Chen and Durst, 2006). Rahn et al (1992) reported the invA primer set that was able to discriminate between Salmonella and non-Salmonella species.…”