Distribuição espaço-temporal da raiva em bovinos, morcegos e cachorros-do-mato, associada ao uso da terra no Estado de Sergipe, de 1987 à 2014

Abstract

Space Organization as a Determinant of the Health-Disease Process for Rabies, Land Use Indicators Associated with Bovine Rabies and Landscape Ecology in Relation to Bovine Rabies are topics that are entirely related and encompass information necessary to clarify concepts and doubts in the area of Livestock and wild environment. The research on these topics elucidates how important it is to monitor the health-disease process in space, especially in the case of rabies, which is a secular disease still present today. Therefore, this work raised information about the influence of land use indicators, spatial organization and landscape ecology on the understanding of rabies in cattle in the State of Sergipe. The results of the rabies diagnoses carried out on species of bovine animals, bats and wild dogs originating from all over the state, from 1987 to 2014 were used as an information source. The diagnoses were made from notifications of suspected rabies cases examined at the Central Laboratory - LACEN, of the Parreiras Horta Health Foundation of the State of Sergipe. 1,776 results of diagnoses were observed in cattle, bats and wild dogs from 1987 to 2014, namely: 793 in cattle, 935 in hematophagous bats of the species Desmodus rotundus and 48 in bush dogs of the species Cerdocyon thous. The observed results showed the circulation of the virus in a wild environment in the State of Sergipe, with a permanently open window, capable of feeding the disease in urban and rural environments. This situation imposes the need for a permanent and systematic epidemiological surveillance of rabies in natural environments, in key wild species, such as chiropterans and carnivores, since the country does not have a vaccination program for wild species.