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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Veterinary Medicine International Volume 2011, Article ID 380680, 5 pages doi:10.4061/2011/380680 Review Article Survey of Canine Dirofilaria immitis Infection in New Caledonia 1, 2 ´ 1, 2 3, 4 1, 2 S. Watier-Grillot, J.-L. Marie, O. Cabre, and B. Davoust 1 Direction R´egionale du Service de Sant´e des Arm´ees de Toulon, Service V´et´erinaire des Arm´ees, BP 860, 83800 Toulon Cedex 9, France 2 Groupe de Travail en Epid´emiologie Animale (GTEA) du Service de Sant´e des Arm´ees, Secteur V´et´erinaire de Marseille, BP 30182,13276 Marseille Cedex 9, France 3 Conseiller Technique V´et´erinaire aupr´es de la Direction Interarm´ees du Service de Sant´e des Forces Franc¸aises en Nouvelle Cal´edonie, BP 2973, 98846 Noum´ea Cedex, France 4 Secteur V´et´erinaire de Lyon, 9 rue du Mas Rillier, 69142 Rillieux-la-Pape Cedex, France Correspondence should be addressed to S. Watier-Grillot, gillinghamvet@yahoo.fr Received 15 October 2010; Revised 17 December 2010; Accepted 8 February 2011 Academic Editor: Georg Duscher Copyright © 2011 S. Watier-Grillot et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Canine dirofilariosis is a frequent parasitic disease in New-Caledonia. A survey of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) infection ¨ ´ among dogs from the cities of Tontouta, Nandaı and Noumea, was performed in March 2009 using two antigen test kits; the microw