Vol.29, No.1 2012

Review

  • Revisiting and Perspective of the HACCP ......Emiko Araki...... 1

Original

  • Comprehensive Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens from Fecal Specimens Using a Reverse Transcription Multiplex PCR with Fluorescent Dye-Labeled Primers ......Naoki Shigemoto, Yukie Tanizawa, Hiroko Yamada,Sachiko Ohara, Takeshi Matsuo and Shinji Fukuda...... 11

Brief Note

  • Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections in Overseas Countries ......Hiroshi Amanuma, Kunihiro Kubota and Kaoru Morikawa...... 18

Symposium 1: Current Topics on Detection of Norovirus in Foods

  • Introduction ......NMamoru Noda and Yukinao Hayashi...... 24
  • Current Status and Problems of Virus Detection in Foods ......Mamoru Noda...... 25
  • Development of PANSORBIN® Trap Method as a General Protocol to Detect Norovirus in Contaminated Food ......Hiroyuki Saito...... 32
  • Detection of Norovirus in Food Samples Employing a Bacterial Culture Method ......Tetsuya Akiba...... 38

Symposium 2: Myxosporean Parasite as a Causative Agent of Foodborne Gastroenteritis Outbreaks with Unknown Etiology - An Overview of Research Achievements and Perspectives

  • Introduction ......Yoshiko Konishi and Akiko Nakama...... 42
  • Approach for Determination of Causative Agents of Novel Outbreak Associated with the Ingestion of Fish and Flesh in Raw ......Toshihiko Yunokawa...... 43
  • Food Poisoning Due to Raw Horsemeat Containing Sarcocystis Parasite ......Yoichi Kamata...... 47
  • Sarcocystis and Sarcocystosis in Livestock ......Morihiro Saito...... 53
  • Investigation of Diarrhea Outbreak Linked to Raw Fish Ingestion ......Yuichiro Yahata , Yoshiko Konishi , Takahiro Ohnishi,Takao Toyokawa and Naomi Nakamura...... 59
  • Toxicity and Detection Method of Myxosporean Parasite ......Takahiro Ohnishi...... 61
  • Detection of Kudoa Species from Paralichthys olivaceus and Thunnus orientalis ......Jun Suzuki...... 65
  • Control of Myxosporean Diseases at Fish Farms ......Hiroshi Yokoyama...... 68

Proceeding of the Society...... 74
Information...... 78
Notes to Contributors...... 79