10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 3 Issue 2 2012 (April - June) A total of 60 samples (20 each of turkey meat, faeces and cloacal swab samples) collected from different sources were subjected to cultural and PCR methods for the presence of lessThan i greaterThan Salmonella lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Salmonella enteritidis lessThan /i greaterThan . Primers for lessThan i greaterThan invA lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan sefA lessThan /i greaterThan gene were used for lessThan i greaterThan Salmonella lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan S.enteritidis lessThan /i greaterThan respectively. Out of 60 samples, 49 were positive for lessThan i greaterThan Salmonella lessThan /i greaterThan spp. i.e. turkey meat-14(70%), turkey cloacal swabs-17(85%), turkey faeces-18(90%) by PCR methods, whereas 43 were positive by cultural method i.e. turkey meat-12(60%), turkey cloacal swabs-15(75%), turkey faeces-16(80%). Out of 49 positive for lessThan i greaterThan Salmonella lessThan /i greaterThan by PCR method, 36 (turkey meat-11, turkey cloacal swabs-13, turkey faeces-12) were positive for lessThan i greaterThan S.enteritidis lessThan /i greaterThan . Selective enrichment with Rappaport-Vassilidias (RV) broth and Tetrathionate (TT) broth were superior over Selenite-F (SF) and Selenite cysteine (SC) broths. Ramya Putturu, Krishnaiah Nelapati, Tirupatireddy Evuri And Bindukiranmayi Ch Cultural, PCR, Prevalence, Salmonella, Salmonella enteritidis, Turkey. 93-99