Special Lecture

• Campylobacter Infections: Food-borne Sources and Isolation Methods......Professor F. J. (Eric) BOLTON...... 151

Originals

• Comparison and Evaluation of Methods for RNA Extraction of Norovirus from Oyster......Tatsuya TANAKA, Tetsuya AKIBA, Yukinao HAYSHI, Kohji MORI, Yayoi NOGUCHI, Hirotaka KONUMA, Yasuko YOSHIDA and Sumio YAMADA...... 157
• Utilization by Intestinal Bacteria and Digestibility of Arabinogalactan from Coffee Bean in Vitro......Makie HORI, Kazuya IWAI, Ryotaro KIMURA, Osamu NAKAGIRI and Michihiro TAKAGI...... 163
• Evaluation of Crush Method for Salmonella Recovery from the Inoculated Egg Shell Sanitized with Sodium Hypochlorite......Tomomi KAWASAKI, Masatsune MURATA, Noriko TOMINAGA and Shinichi KAWAMOTO...... 171

Short Papers

• Study of Simple and Rapid Detection of Salmonella spp. Using VIDAS Second Report; The New Protocol with Unique Enrichment Broth......Naoko NAKAZATO, Yoshiaki YABIKU, Yuko UEMA, Keisuke FUKUMURA, Kazuyuki UCHIDA, Susumu SAWAGUCHI, and Hiroshi NAKAGAWA...... 178
• Detection Assays of Norovirus Genome Using LightCycler......Yukio MORITA, Masahiro FUJITA, Mika SAITO, Hiroyuki TSUKAGOSHI, Toshie HOSHINO, Masahiko KATO, Kunihisa KOZAWA, Osamu NISHIO and Hirokazu KIMURA...... 183

Epidemiology

• Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in Shimizu Harbor Areas......Emiko NAGASHIMA, Yuuichiro ODA, Kazuhiro OZAWA, Yukiko HARA-KUDO, Tokuhiro NISHINA, and Hirotaka KONUMA...... 189
• Contamination of Chicken with Campylobacter spp. at Meat-Processing Plants and their Countermeasure......Kazuaki ONO, Yoko ANDO, Yukie OZEKI, Hideaki SUGITA, Keiko YANAGAWA and Toshio NAKAGAWA...... 194

• Proceeding of the Sociey...... 199
• Information...... 206
• Cumulative Contents of Volume 24...... 208