Vol.30, No.1 2013

Review

  • Immunomodifying Effects of Probiotics ......Tomomi Komura and Yoshikazu Nishikawa...... 1

Originals

  • Two Rare Contaminants, Helicostylum pulchrum and Scopulariopsis flava, Found in a White Natural Cheese, and the Effect of Their Presence......Noriko Sato, Yoshitsugu Sugiura, Souichi Nukuzuma, Shun-ichi Udagawa and Toshitsugu Tanaka...... 15
  • Determination of Viable Count in Food Samples with Rapid Live Bacteria Counter Using Cassette-Type Flow Cytometry......Hisao Inami and Yusuke Watanabe...... 22

Short Papers

  • An Outbreak of Suspected Food Poisoning Related to Deer Meat Containing Sarcocystis Cysts ......Kayo Aoki, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Morihiro Saito, Yoshiko Sugita-Konishi, Maiko Watanabe and Yoichi Kamata...... 28
  • Identification and Fumonisin B2 Production of Black Aspergilli Isolated from Moldy Dried Fruits ......Miyuki Yanai, Chie Kajihara, Ayako Kimura, Motoki Ogiso, Hiroshi Baba and Shun-ichi Udagawa...... 33
  • Presence of Lipooligosaccharide Biosynthesis Genes Associated with Ganglioside Mimicry as a Cause of Guillain‒Barré Syndrome and Antibiotic Resistance of Campylobacter jejuni Strains from Gastroenteritis Patients and Chicken ......Masanori Matsuda, Tomoko Tokushima, Kumiko Shigemura, Hiroshi Hiwaki, Munenori Furuta and Takahiro Oda...... 39
  • Effectiveness of Screening of Meat Samples for Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Serovar O157 and O26 by LAMP Assay ......Eiji Yokoyama, Shinichiro Hirai, Takashi Kanda, Midori Hiroi and Sinya Shibata...... 43

Case

  • Estimation of the Amount of Enterotoxins in Kusadaifukumoti Suspected to Be Food That Caused Staphylococcus aureus Food Poisoning ......Yoshiko Hamada, Junko Okuno, Yurie Ino and Toyoko Hosoda...... 48

Introduction of Members...... 52
Selected Paper Abstacts...... 53
Information...... 58
Notes to Contributors...... 60