Japanese Society of Food Microbiology

Comprehensive Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens from Fecal Specimens Using a Reverse Transcription Multiplex PCR with Fluorescent Dye-Labeled Primers ......Naoki Shigemoto, Yukie Tanizawa, Hiroko Yamada,Sachiko Ohara, Takeshi Matsuo and Shinji Fukuda...... 11

Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections in Overseas Countries ......Hiroshi Amanuma, Kunihiro Kubota and Kaoru Morikawa...... 18

Introduction ......NMamoru Noda and Yukinao Hayashi...... 24
Current Status and Problems of Virus Detection in Foods ......Mamoru Noda...... 25
Development of PANSORBIN® Trap Method as a General Protocol to Detect Norovirus in Contaminated Food ......Hiroyuki Saito...... 32
Detection of Norovirus in Food Samples Employing a Bacterial Culture Method ......Tetsuya Akiba...... 38

Introduction ......Yoshiko Konishi and Akiko Nakama...... 42
Approach for Determination of Causative Agents of Novel Outbreak Associated with the Ingestion of Fish and Flesh in Raw ......Toshihiko Yunokawa...... 43
Food Poisoning Due to Raw Horsemeat Containing Sarcocystis Parasite ......Yoichi Kamata...... 47
Sarcocystis and Sarcocystosis in Livestock ......Morihiro Saito...... 53
Investigation of Diarrhea Outbreak Linked to Raw Fish Ingestion ......Yuichiro Yahata , Yoshiko Konishi , Takahiro Ohnishi,Takao Toyokawa and Naomi Nakamura...... 59
Toxicity and Detection Method of Myxosporean Parasite ......Takahiro Ohnishi...... 61
Detection of Kudoa Species from Paralichthys olivaceus and Thunnus orientalis ......Jun Suzuki...... 65
Control of Myxosporean Diseases at Fish Farms ......Hiroshi Yokoyama...... 68