Review

• Immunomodifying Effects of Probiotics ......Tomomi Komura and Yoshikazu Nishikawa...... 1

Originals

• Two Rare Contaminants, Helicostylum pulchrum and Scopulariopsis flava, Found in a White Natural Cheese, and the Effect of Their Presence......Noriko Sato, Yoshitsugu Sugiura, Souichi Nukuzuma, Shun-ichi Udagawa and Toshitsugu Tanaka...... 15
• Determination of Viable Count in Food Samples with Rapid Live Bacteria Counter Using Cassette-Type Flow Cytometry......Hisao Inami and Yusuke Watanabe...... 22

Short Papers

• An Outbreak of Suspected Food Poisoning Related to Deer Meat Containing Sarcocystis Cysts ......Kayo Aoki, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Morihiro Saito, Yoshiko Sugita-Konishi, Maiko Watanabe and Yoichi Kamata...... 28
• Identification and Fumonisin B₂ Production of Black Aspergilli Isolated from Moldy Dried Fruits ......Miyuki Yanai, Chie Kajihara, Ayako Kimura， Motoki Ogiso， Hiroshi Baba and Shun-ichi Udagawa...... 33
• Presence of Lipooligosaccharide Biosynthesis Genes Associated with Ganglioside Mimicry as a Cause of Guillain‒Barré Syndrome and Antibiotic Resistance of Campylobacter jejuni Strains from Gastroenteritis Patients and Chicken ......Masanori Matsuda, Tomoko Tokushima, Kumiko Shigemura, Hiroshi Hiwaki, Munenori Furuta and Takahiro Oda...... 39
• Effectiveness of Screening of Meat Samples for Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Serovar O157 and O26 by LAMP Assay ......Eiji Yokoyama, Shinichiro Hirai, Takashi Kanda, Midori Hiroi and Sinya Shibata...... 43

Case

• Estimation of the Amount of Enterotoxins in Kusadaifukumoti Suspected to Be Food That Caused Staphylococcus aureus Food Poisoning ......Yoshiko Hamada, Junko Okuno, Yurie Ino and Toyoko Hosoda...... 48

• Introduction of Members...... 52
• Selected Paper Abstacts...... 53
• Information...... 58
• Notes to Contributors...... 60