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Background   Capillaria plica  (syn.  Pearsonema plica ) is a nematode that resides in the urinary bladder and rarely in ureters or in the kidney pelvis of various carnivores, especially foxes and dogs. Urine sedimentation technique is actually the only diagnostic tool that permits the identification of  C. plica  eggs, but its sensitivity is low and when an infection is suspected (or when it is necessary to confirm treatment efficacy) more than one examination of urine sediment should be performed. The present paper reports a clinical case of natural  C. plica  infection in a dog from southern Italy. In addition, two new techniques, FLOTAC and Mini-FLOTAC, were used for the diagnosis of  C. plica  in dog urine and compared with the technique of sedimentation.    Results  Using FLOTAC with fresh urine and sodium chloride as flotation solution, were obtained the best results for the diagnosis of  C. plica  in dog urine in term of eggs counted (mean eggs per 10 ml of urine = 70.3 FLOTAC  vs  40.3 Mini FLOTAC  vs  32.8 sedimentation) and coefficient of variation (CV%) (6.2 FLOTAC  vs  13.4 Mini-FLOTAC  vs  32.9 sedimentation).    Conclusions  The FLOTAC was the more sensitive method, but also the Mini-FLOTAC could be a valid alternative diagnostic method because gave better results than the classical sedimentation and can be used in place of the FLOTAC in laboratories where the centrifugation step cannot be performed.

FLOTAC and Mini-FLOTAC for uro-microscopic diagnosis of Capillaria plica (syn. Pearsonema plica) in dogs