Review

• The Circulatory Dynamism of Norovirus and Impact to Immunity ...... Naomi SAKON and Jun KOMANO ...... 97

Special Lecture

• Current Trends and Countermeasures of Food-Borne Infections ...... Haruo WATANABE ...... 107

Symposium I: Current problems in the microbiological control of food and food testing

• Introduction ...... Toshiro KUROKI and Yoshiyuki SETO ...... 114
Recent Trends of Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens and Fungi Becoming Clear by Administrative Inspection ...... Yuko KUMEDA ...... 115
• Current Status and Issues of Detection of Virus from Food ...... Masashi UEMA ...... 121
• Reliability of the Microbiological Test Results in Foods ...... Yoko MORI ...... 127
• Current Situation and Parasite Detection Methods in Parasitic Food Poisoning in Japan ...... Hiromu SUGIYAMA ...... 134

Short Papers

• Effectiveness of a Nested Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of Norovirus in Oysters ...... Shunsuke KIMURA, Yuko SUZUKI, Miwa ABE, Naoko SUGAWARA, Yo UEKI, Setsu WATANABE and Mamoru NODA ...... 138
• Isolation and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiling of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli from Chicken Meats Collected from Retail Stores and Poultry Processing Plants ...... Tetsuya MORI, Nozomi ICHIKAWA, Kanae KISHINO, Shintaro WADA, Bizhen ZOU, Toyohiko NANBA and Takeshi ITO ...... 142

Epidemiologies

• Detection of Myxosporean Parasites in Unidentified Food-Borne Disease Associated with Consumption of Raw Fish ...... Takahiro OHNISHI, Akiko TOMARU, Tomoya YOSHINARI, Yoichi KAMATA and Yoshiko SUGITA-KONISHI ...... 150
• Comparison of the Methods for Detection and Enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes in Food ...... Yukako SHIMOJIMA, Miki IDA, Yukari NISHINO, Rie FUKUI, Yukihiro KODO, Sumiyo KURODA, Akiko NAKAMA, Akihiko HIRAI and Kenji SADAMASU ...... 155
• Two Outbreaks of Salmonella enterica Serovar 4,［5］, 12 : i : – Infections and a Survey of Salmonella Contamination in Quail Eggs ...... Yuta KAWAKAMI, Ayaka HARA, Jun KAWASE, Morito KUROSAKI, Yoshie TSUNOMORI, Fumi HAYASHI and Yoshiko MURAKAMI ...... 160

• Introduction of Members ...... 166
• Selected Paper Abstracts ...... 167
• Proceeding of the Society ...... 171
• Information ...... 173