Vol.28, No.2 2011

Review

  • Pathotypes and Virulence Factors of Diarrhogenic Escherichia coli ......Masami MIYAKE and Takeshi MATSUZAWA...... 57

Symposium: A Present Status of Food Complaint and a Future View of Its Microbial Testing

  • Introduction ......Seiichi UMESAKO and Shigeki NISHII...... 68
  • Current State of Complaint by Microorganism in Food Distribution Industry ......Ryoichi HINO...... 70
  • Administrative Correspondence for Consultation Concerning Food ......Tetsuo YAMAGATA...... 73
  • Examination Methods for Spoilage Foods ......Shin-ichiro YOSHIDA...... 75
  • Microbiological Risk Managements in Food Manufactures ......Toshihiro YAMADA and Yoshio KONO...... 79

Symposium: Food Pathogens to Be Paid Attention Now

  • Introduction ......Shinji YAMASAKI and Yoshikazu NISHIKAWA...... 85
  • Important Campylobacter-Related Organisms Other Than C. jejuni and C. coli ......Shinji YAMASAKI...... 86
  • Epidemiology and Examination Methods of Atypical Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli ......Yoshikazu NISHIKAWA...... 92
  • Enteropathogenicity of Providencia spp. ......Takeshi HONDA...... 101
  • Epidemiology of Pathogenic Yersinia and Their Detection Method ......Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA...... 104

Originals

  • Characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Isolated from Flower and Algal Beach Casts in Ishikawa, Japan, Using the One-step Small Moromi Model ......Takashi KUDA, Akira MATSUDA, Hiroki YASUNAKA and Toshihiro YANO...... 114
  • Isolation of Extended-Spectrum Β-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria from Retail Chicken Meat and Diarrhea Patients at Community Hospitals ......Tomoe ISHIHARA, Ichiro FURUKAWA, Toshiro KUROKI and Tsutomu KAMIYAMA...... 123
  • Feasibility of Employing a Bacterial Culture Method (A3T Method) for Detection of Norovirus in Oysters ......Tetsuya AKIBA, Miyuki NAGANO, Tatsuya TANAKA, Kohji MORI, Yukinao HAYASHI and Akemi KAI...... 128
  • Comparison of Four Enrichment Broths for the Detection of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli from Cheese ......Masashi KANKI, Kazuko SETO, Tetsuya HARADA and Yuko KUMEDA...... 133

Short Paper

  • Detection and Quantitation of Norovirus Genome Using Real-Time RT-PCR ......Masashi FUJII, Junko YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki MUKAI, Masahiro FUJITA, Hiroyuki TSUKAGOSHI, Masakazu YOSHIZUMI, Mika SAITO, Kunihisa KOZAWA and Hirokazu KIMURA...... 139

Book Review...... 143
Proceeding of the Society...... 144
Information...... 147