The influences of relief, precipitation, temperature, and seasonally was evaluated on the cattle rabies spatial distribution in the State of São Paulo. In that way, a Geographic Data Bank was developed in order to create a kernel function with the cases of cattle rabies from 1992 to 2003 and its relation with other variables. Results showed that the rainy hilly areas with low temperature in the "Planalto Atlântico" and "Província Costeira" were linked to areas with the higher density of the function in opposite to the plane areas of the "Planalto Ocidental" with low rainy index and high temperatures. There were no relations between seasonality and cattle rabies in the State of São Paulo. The flat region of the "Depressão Periférica" and urban area between São Paulo and Campinas are barriers that determine the disease occurrence in East-West and East-South regions of the State.
Desmodus rotundus; epidemiology; spatial analyses
