Education Lecture

• Overview of Methodologies to Sample and Assess Microbial Burden in Low Biomass Environments......James BRUCKNER and Kasthuri VENKATESWARAN...... 61

Symposium: An Earthshaking Event in Japan Due to the Largest Outbreak of EHEC O157-After 10 Years

• Introduction......Shinji YAMASAKI...... 71
• Administrative Measures for a Large Outbreak of Foodborne Disease......Yoshito TSUMURA...... 72
• Current Status of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 Infection after the Outbreak in Sakai, Japan......Jun TERAJIMA...... 74
• The Official Method for Isolation of Escherichia coli O157 and O26 from Food......Yukiko HARA-KUDO and Kosuke TAKATORI...... 80
• Recent Progress in the Enterohemorrhagic E. coli Research Based on the Genome Information......Tetsuya HAYASHI...... 86
• Development and Application of a Simple and Rapid Molecular Epidemiologic Tool for EHEC O157......Shinji YAMASAKI...... 89

Original

• Isolation of Enterococcus faecalis or Enterococcus faecium from Domestic and Imported Meat and the Incidence of Virulence Genes in Isolates......Naoto ISHIZAKI, Mikiyoshi SHIBATA, Seiji KANEKO, Akemi KAI and Sumio YAMADA...... 94

Short Papers

• Antimicrobial Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Commercial Raw Meat, Humans, Pigs and Chickens......Kosuke FUJIO, Akira SHIMIZU, Kosuke MATSUMURA, Junichi KAWANO, Hiroshi KITAGAWA and Shizunobu IGIMI...... 100

Book Review

• Naoya KASAI...... 107

• Proceeding of the Sociey...... 108
• Information...... 110