Vol.20, No.4 2003

Review

  • Properties of Injured Bacteria Occurring in Inactivation Processes..........Tetsuaki TSUCHIDO.......... 141

Topic

  • Emerging Virus Infectious Diseases-SARS-..........Fumio KOBUNE.......... 151

Symposium: Vibrio Infections and Food Sanitation

  • Preface..........Sumio SHINODA.......... 155
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus Infection: The Seafood-borne Vibrio Infection Important in Asia..........Mitsuaki NISHIBUCHI.......... 156
  • The Latest Trend and Characteristic of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Japan -Focusing on the Research in Tohoku District-..........Yoshimitsu OTOMO and Jun YATSUYANAGI.......... 161
  • Investigation on Seafood and Measures against Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Japan..........Yukiko HARA-KUDO and Susumu KUMAGAI.......... 165
  • Genome Analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus..........Tetsuya IIDA.......... 170

Originals

  • Construction and Validation of Antibiotic Resistance Escherichia coli O157 : H7 Strains for Acidic Foods..........Yasuhiro INATSU, Md. Latiful BARI, Susumu KAWASAKI and Kenji ISSHIKI.......... 177
  • Survival of Listeria monocytogenes in Artificial Seawater..........Koji YAMAZAKI, Minoru TAKAHASHI, Yuji KAWAI and Norio INOUE.......... 185
  • Distribution of the eae (Intimin Type) and saa Genes in Strains of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli from Human and Various Animal Origins..........Teizo TSUKAMOTO, Shinji YAMASAKI and Sou-ichi MAKINO.......... 191
  • Isolation and Identification of Coliforms Distributed in Meat, Vegetables and the Environment..........Yotaku GYOBU, Koji KATORI, Daisuke TANAKA, Shiho HOSOROGI, Junko ISOBE, Keiko KIMATA and Yoshiyuki NAGAI.......... 197
  • Characterization of Outbreaks of Viral Foodborne Gastroenteritis ..........Shinji FUKUDA, Shinichi TAKAO, Masaru KUWAYAMA, Yukie SHIMAZU and Kazuo MIYAZAKI.......... 203

Epidemiology

  • RAPD PCR Type of Campylobacter Isolates from Cecum Contents of BroilerChickens..........Norinaga MIWA, Yoichi TAKEGAHARA, Katsuya TERAI, Hideo KATO and Tsuneo TAKEUCHI.......... 211

Method

  • Evaluation of ES Colimark Agar for Enumeration of Coliforms and Escherichia coli in Food Samples..........Tadashi TERAMOTO, Issei OKAMOTO, Kazunori ASAMOTO, Kazuto IMAI, Takashi YAMADA, Takeshi YAGINUMA and Akihiko ENDO.......... 217

Proceeding of the Society..........225
Information..........232
Cumulative Contents of Volume 20..........234