Model of vulnerability to the circulation of rabic virus between vampire bats shelters in municipality of São Pedro-SP

Abstract

The vampire bat Desmodus rotundus is the main transmitter of domestic herbivorous rabies,
which causes enormous economic losses in the livestock of Latin America. From the analysis
and combination of determinants that contribute to the exposure and diffusion of rabies virus
(Variant 3) among bats, it was possible to qualitatively estimate the vulnerability to the
circulation of rabies virus among shelters of D. rotundus in the Municipality of São Pedro. Most
of the shelters showed little vulnerability to the circulation of the rabies virus, mainly due to the
absence of the virus in the Municipality and the low number of D. rotundus inhabiting most of
the shelters. The presented model has a low cost, being able to be done in free software of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or using only a receiver GPS device, allowing to
optimize the monitoring and interventions of control of the herbivorous rabies, saving time and
resources.