%0 Journal Article %T Modelo de risco para circula£¿£¿o do v¨ªrus da raiva em herb¨ªvoros no estado de S£¿o Paulo, Brasil %A Dias %A Ricardo Augusto %A Nogueira Filho %A Vladimir de Souza %A Goulart %A Carla da Silva %A Telles %A Isabel Cristine Oliveira %A Marques %A Guilherme Henrique Figueiredo %A Ferreira %A Fernando %A Amaku %A Marcos %A Ferreira Neto %A Jos¨¦ Soares %J Revista Panamericana de Salud P¨²blica %D 2011 %I Organizaci¨®n Panamericana de la Salud %R 10.1590/S1020-49892011001000011 %X objective: to propose a qualitative risk assessment model for the study of livestock exposure to rabies virus from the vampire bat desmodus rotundus (antigenic variant 3) in the para¨ªba do sul river valley, state of s£¿o paulo, brazil. methods: based on scenario trees generated considering rabies exposure and its spread, we estimated the probability of rabies cases in large livestock and its association with the geographic location of livestock farms. results: assessment of the historical series of rabies focal points in the first semester of 2006, which was used to validate the risk assessment model, revealed that 81.8% of the focal points were adequately foreseen by the model and could have been prevented with strategic vaccination in high-risk areas. conclusions: the adoption of control measures specifically targeting high-risk areas might entail a substantial decrease in the number of rabies focal points, at a low cost and with optimal movement of field teams. %K risk assessment %K models %K statistical %K rabies virus %K cattle %K brazil. %U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1020-49892011001000011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en