INTESTINAL PARASITISM IN DOGS AND CATS - RESULTS OF AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEY IN FRANCE

The authors present the results of a series of 518 coproscopic examina tions carried out in France in the four Veterinary Schools in dogs and cats. Above 420 dogs, 91 were infested, helminths encountered were by decreasing frequency Toxocara canis, Trichuris vulpis, Dipylidium can inum, Uncinaria stenocephala, Ancylostoma caninum et Toxascaris leonin a. 27.7% of dogs less than one year old were infested with roundworms and hookworms. 23.7% of 279 dogs of more than one-year-old were infest ed with in addition whipworms and Dipylidium. Above 98 cats, 17 were i nfested. 31.7% of cats less than one year old were infested with princ ipally Toxocara. Only 7% of cats of more than one year old were infest ed by Toxacara or Dipylidium.