Flea detection (Siphonaptera) in dogs at the intake area of the Magdeburg polyclinic for small house and zoo animals
Müller, J.; Kutschmann, K.
Angewandte Parasitologie 26(4): 197-203
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3162 PMID: 3879113 Document Number: 257144
Two random investigations carried out in 1981/1982 established 203 fleas of 5 species in a sex incidence of 1:2.4 (60 males/143 females) on 48 dogs: Ctenocephalides felis occurred most frequently in an extent of infestation of 13 (1981) and 9 (1982) in 24 dogs with a population density of 1.1 to 1.9 specimens/animals, followed by C. canis with 8 (1981) and 11 (1982) from 24 dogs in a greater density of 2.3 to 5 per host. In this C. felis occurs more frequently in "town dogs": 15 identifications from Magdeburg and 3 from the county towns of Quedlinburg, Schönebeck and Burg as opposed to only 2 from country communities. Pulex irritans in an extent of infestation of 5 out of 24 dogs in 1982 reached a density of 5 per animal. The results confirm the fact that the range of species of fleas on dogs depends or the keeping conditions and the specific breed activity of the hosts.