Studies on occurrence of invasive salmonella spp. from unorganised poultry farm to retail chicken meat shops in Mumbai city, India

The present study was planned to estimate occurrence of invasive Salmonella spp. in retail chicken supply chain of Mumbai and quantifying Salmonella at crucial stages of processing by the Most Probable Number (MPN) and confirmation by invA gene by PCR assay. A total of 18(n = 108) farm samples were found to be positive for Salmonella with prevalence of 16.66% and statistical significance was observed amongst different sources at farm (p=0.027).