Review

• Pathotypes and Virulence Factors of Diarrhogenic Escherichia coli ......Masami MIYAKE and Takeshi MATSUZAWA...... 57

Symposium: A Present Status of Food Complaint and a Future View of Its Microbial Testing

• Introduction ......Seiichi UMESAKO and Shigeki NISHII...... 68
• Current State of Complaint by Microorganism in Food Distribution Industry ......Ryoichi HINO...... 70
• Administrative Correspondence for Consultation Concerning Food ......Tetsuo YAMAGATA...... 73
• Examination Methods for Spoilage Foods ......Shin-ichiro YOSHIDA...... 75
• Microbiological Risk Managements in Food Manufactures ......Toshihiro YAMADA and Yoshio KONO...... 79

Symposium: Food Pathogens to Be Paid Attention Now

• Introduction ......Shinji YAMASAKI and Yoshikazu NISHIKAWA...... 85
• Important Campylobacter-Related Organisms Other Than C. jejuni and C. coli ......Shinji YAMASAKI...... 86
• Epidemiology and Examination Methods of Atypical Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli ......Yoshikazu NISHIKAWA...... 92
• Enteropathogenicity of Providencia spp. ......Takeshi HONDA...... 101
• Epidemiology of Pathogenic Yersinia and Their Detection Method ......Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA...... 104

Originals

• Characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Isolated from Flower and Algal Beach Casts in Ishikawa, Japan, Using the One-step Small Moromi Model ......Takashi KUDA, Akira MATSUDA, Hiroki YASUNAKA and Toshihiro YANO...... 114
• Isolation of Extended-Spectrum Β-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria from Retail Chicken Meat and Diarrhea Patients at Community Hospitals ......Tomoe ISHIHARA, Ichiro FURUKAWA, Toshiro KUROKI and Tsutomu KAMIYAMA...... 123
• Feasibility of Employing a Bacterial Culture Method (A3T Method) for Detection of Norovirus in Oysters ......Tetsuya AKIBA, Miyuki NAGANO, Tatsuya TANAKA, Kohji MORI, Yukinao HAYASHI and Akemi KAI...... 128
• Comparison of Four Enrichment Broths for the Detection of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli from Cheese ......Masashi KANKI, Kazuko SETO, Tetsuya HARADA and Yuko KUMEDA...... 133

Short Paper

• Detection and Quantitation of Norovirus Genome Using Real-Time RT-PCR ......Masashi FUJII, Junko YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki MUKAI, Masahiro FUJITA, Hiroyuki TSUKAGOSHI, Masakazu YOSHIZUMI, Mika SAITO, Kunihisa KOZAWA and Hirokazu KIMURA...... 139

• Book Review...... 143
• Proceeding of the Society...... 144
• Information...... 147