Intestinal parasites of stray cats in Cairo, Egypt

Autopsies of fifty seven stray cats caught in Cairo, revealed intestinal parasites in 41 [71.9 per cent]. The infection rates were 40.35 per cent for Dipylidium caninum, 35.08 for Toxocara cati, 10.52 per cent for Diplopylidium sp., 8.77 per cent for Toxascaris sp., 7.01 per cent for both Heterophyes heterophyes and isospora felis, 5.26 per cent for Ancylostoma caninum and 3.5 per cent for Trichinella spiralis. Some cats had double infection and others triple infection. In addition to the general importance of these parasites to the health of the cat, most of them are transmissible to man causing different pathological manifestations. The epidemiological role of cat was discussed