Reviews

• Properties of Injured Bacteria Occurring in Inactivation Processes..........Tetsuaki TSUCHIDO.......... 141

Topic

• Emerging Virus Infectious Diseases-SARS-..........Fumio KOBUNE.......... 151

Symposium: Vibrio Infections and Food Sanitation

• Preface..........Sumio SHINODA.......... 155
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus Infection: The Seafood-borne Vibrio Infection Important in Asia..........Mitsuaki NISHIBUCHI.......... 156
• The Latest Trend and Characteristic of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Japan -Focusing on the Research in Tohoku District-..........Yoshimitsu OTOMO and Jun YATSUYANAGI.......... 161
• Investigation on Seafood and Measures against Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Japan..........Yukiko HARA-KUDO and Susumu KUMAGAI.......... 165
• Genome Analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus..........Tetsuya IIDA.......... 170

Originals

• Construction and Validation of Antibiotic Resistance Escherichia coli O157 : H7 Strains for Acidic Foods..........Yasuhiro INATSU, Md. Latiful BARI, Susumu KAWASAKI and Kenji ISSHIKI.......... 177
• Survival of Listeria monocytogenes in Artificial Seawater..........Koji YAMAZAKI, Minoru TAKAHASHI, Yuji KAWAI and Norio INOUE.......... 185
• Distribution of the eae (Intimin Type) and saa Genes in Strains of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli from Human and Various Animal Origins..........Teizo TSUKAMOTO, Shinji YAMASAKI and Sou-ichi MAKINO.......... 191
• Isolation and Identification of Coliforms Distributed in Meat, Vegetables and the Environment..........Yotaku GYOBU, Koji KATORI, Daisuke TANAKA, Shiho HOSOROGI, Junko ISOBE, Keiko KIMATA and Yoshiyuki NAGAI.......... 197
• Characterization of Outbreaks of Viral Foodborne Gastroenteritis ..........Shinji FUKUDA, Shinichi TAKAO, Masaru KUWAYAMA, Yukie SHIMAZU and Kazuo MIYAZAKI.......... 203

Epidemiology

• RAPD PCR Type of Campylobacter Isolates from Cecum Contents of BroilerChickens..........Norinaga MIWA, Yoichi TAKEGAHARA, Katsuya TERAI, Hideo KATO and Tsuneo TAKEUCHI.......... 211

Method

• Evaluation of ES Colimark Agar for Enumeration of Coliforms and Escherichia coli in Food Samples..........Tadashi TERAMOTO, Issei OKAMOTO, Kazunori ASAMOTO, Kazuto IMAI, Takashi YAMADA, Takeshi YAGINUMA and Akihiko ENDO.......... 217

• Proceeding of the Society..........225
• Information..........232
• Cumulative Contents of Volume 20..........234