The contents of paired caeca were collected and frozen at −20 °C for DNA extraction and Salmonella and Lactobacillus quantification by real-time PCR. DNA from caecal samples was extracted using a QIAamp Stool kit according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Based on known genomic sequences, strain-specific real-time PCRs were designed to determine colonisation of the caecum by S. Enteritidis and each of the lactobacilli isolates (Table 1). Real-time PCR in SybrGreen format was performed exactly as described previously [26 (link)].
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