[Epizoology of leishmaniasis in the province of Foggia: leishmaniasis in the dog].

The authors value the sensibility and the advantage of the different serological tests for the diagnosis of canine leishmaniasis (immunodiffusion, complement fixation and immunofluorescent tests) and give the results obtained from an epizoological survey carried out on dogs in the province of Foggia (Italy). The immunofluorescent test, whose positivity sera titre has fixed at the diluition of 1:10, resulted the most appropriate. In more than 400 animals examined, all from the 50 communes of the province of Foggia, the infection level of the dog by leishmania resulted to be 7.42%. If the three geographical zones, in which the province has been subdivided, are considered, this level varies from 10.21% for the subjects from the Gargano promontory, to 6.89% for those of the Subapennine Dauno, and to 5.55% for those of the Apulia plateau.