ABSTRACT
Sanitary Microbiology is a science based on the detection of risks associated with the production, manufacture and consumption of foods and water. It has been established that environment facts determine the survival, growing and inactivation of the microorganisms. These risks are commonly associated with the presence of microbiological hazards and represent a serious problem from the Public Health viewpoint. The types of microorganisms presents in products will depend of the way they have been elaborated, transportated, stored, taking or prepared before eating. The guarantee of safety foods have impacted both to single and collective level: and also in economics. socials and sanitaries aspects. The sanitary microbiology like a science must be in context to the regional and national needs. with an important vinculation between different sectors of the society such as academy, industry and government, taking care of infrastructure and qualified personal, based on novel technology, actualized normative and making basical and applied research. The application of novel technology for the microbiological analysis of water and foods allows to show the microbial risk and also identify practices that compromise the safety of themself, with the final proposes of diminish or eliminate healthy risk due the food consumption.
Subject(s)
Food Microbiology , Public Health , ADP Ribose Transferases/genetics , Diarrhea/microbiology , Food Handling , Humans , Mexico , Salmonella/genetics , Virulence Factors/geneticsABSTRACT
Se presenta la experiencia de poco más de tres años en el manejo de una epidemia de Cólera Morbus en el Estado de Puebla, México. Desde su unicio en 1991, hasta la semana 28 de 1994 se han presentado 5 740 casos con 51 defunciones. A lo largo de tres años, las acciones se fueron encaminando hacia la consolidación de un criterio común, con la participación de los Comités Municipales de Salud y Educación, orientando principalmente las actividades a la capacitación de la población, al autocuidado de la salud y a uniformar las medidas de saneamiento básico. Durante 1994 la disminución de casos en más del 95 por ciento comparativamente al año anterior, han permitido corroborar la eficacioa de este manejo, por lo que se concluye que a pesar de la gravedad de este padecimiento, las medidad médicas, si bien útiles, poco tienen que hacer en el control del problema si no se estimula la participación organizada y muy activa de toda la comunidad
