Vampire bats became the main reservoir of rabies in Latin America, where the disease remains one of the most important viral zoonoses affecting humans and livestock. In Peru, the most affected livestock are cattle. The official data of 1,729 cases of bovine rabies were evaluated between 2003 and 2017 through a descriptive analysis, decomposition of the time‐series and spatio‐temporal analyses. Although the cases did not present a defined seasonality, the trend seemed to increase for several years. The bovine rabies cases are more frequent in the inter‐Andean valleys than in other regions of the Amazon plains. The highest case density was observed in the regions of Ayacucho, Cuzco and Apurímac, all located in the Andes. It is necessary to review the current national program for the prevention and control of rabies in livestock, incorporating concepts of the ecology of vampire bats, as well as the prediction of the infection waves geographic and temporal spread. These approaches could improve the efficiency of other current prevention measures that have not shown the expected control effects, such as indiscriminate culling of vampire bats.

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2003-2017年秘鲁牛狂犬病病例的时空描述。

吸血蝙蝠成为拉丁美洲狂犬病的主要宿主，在那里该病仍然是影响人类和牲畜的最重要的病毒性人畜共患病之一。在秘鲁，受影响最严重的牲畜是牛。通过描述性分析，时间序列分解和时空分析，评估了2003年至2017年间1,729例牛狂犬病的官方数据。尽管病例没有明确的季节性变化，但这种趋势似乎已经持续了几年。与亚马孙平原其他地区相比，安第斯山脉之间的山谷中牛狂犬病的发病率更高。在安第斯山脉的Ayacucho，Cuzco和Apurímac地区观察到最高病例密度。有必要审查当前的预防和控制牲畜狂犬病的国家计划，结合了吸血蝙蝠的生态学概念，以及对感染波地理和时间传播的预测。这些方法可以提高目前尚未显示出预期控制效果的其他预防措施的效率，例如滥杀吸血蝙蝠。