Evaluation of Semisolid Rappaport Medium for Detection of Salmonellae in Meat Products

Abstract
The efficiency of semisolid Rappaport medium, brilliant green agar, and bismuth sulfite agar was compared for the recovery of Salmonella from 104 naturally contaminated meat products that had been pre-enriched and subsequently enriched in Rappaport-Vassiliadis broth, Müller-Kauffmann tetrathionate broth, and selenite-F broth. The semisolid Rappaport incubated at 35°C was the most sensitive of the plating media (penteritidis serotype of Salmonella.