Vol.24, No.4 2007

Special Lecture

  • Campylobacter Infections: Food-borne Sources and Isolation Methods......Professor F. J. (Eric) BOLTON...... 151

Originals

  • Comparison and Evaluation of Methods for RNA Extraction of Norovirus from Oyster......Tatsuya TANAKA, Tetsuya AKIBA, Yukinao HAYSHI, Kohji MORI, Yayoi NOGUCHI, Hirotaka KONUMA, Yasuko YOSHIDA and Sumio YAMADA...... 157
  • Utilization by Intestinal Bacteria and Digestibility of Arabinogalactan from Coffee Bean in Vitro......Makie HORI, Kazuya IWAI, Ryotaro KIMURA, Osamu NAKAGIRI and Michihiro TAKAGI...... 163
  • Evaluation of Crush Method for Salmonella Recovery from the Inoculated Egg Shell Sanitized with Sodium Hypochlorite......Tomomi KAWASAKI, Masatsune MURATA, Noriko TOMINAGA and Shinichi KAWAMOTO...... 171

Short Papers

  • Study of Simple and Rapid Detection of Salmonella spp. Using VIDAS Second Report; The New Protocol with Unique Enrichment Broth......Naoko NAKAZATO, Yoshiaki YABIKU, Yuko UEMA, Keisuke FUKUMURA, Kazuyuki UCHIDA, Susumu SAWAGUCHI, and Hiroshi NAKAGAWA...... 178
  • Detection Assays of Norovirus Genome Using LightCycler......Yukio MORITA, Masahiro FUJITA, Mika SAITO, Hiroyuki TSUKAGOSHI, Toshie HOSHINO, Masahiko KATO, Kunihisa KOZAWA, Osamu NISHIO and Hirokazu KIMURA...... 183

Epidemiologies

  • Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in Shimizu Harbor Areas......Emiko NAGASHIMA, Yuuichiro ODA, Kazuhiro OZAWA, Yukiko HARA-KUDO, Tokuhiro NISHINA, and Hirotaka KONUMA...... 189
  • Contamination of Chicken with Campylobacter spp. at Meat-Processing Plants and their Countermeasure......Kazuaki ONO, Yoko ANDO, Yukie OZEKI, Hideaki SUGITA, Keiko YANAGAWA and Toshio NAKAGAWA...... 194

Proceeding of the Sociey...... 199
Information...... 206
Cumulative Contents of Volume 24...... 208