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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Case report Open Access Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a Finnish kennel 1 2 1 Kati J Dillard , Seppo AM Saari and Marjukka Anttila* Address: 1Pathology Unit, Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira, Helsinki, Finland and 2Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Email: Kati J Dillard - kati.dillard@evira.fi; Seppo AM Saari - seppo.saari@helsinki.fi; Marjukka Anttila* - marjukka.anttila@evira.fi * Corresponding author Published: 12 December 2007 Received: 27 June 2007 Accepted: 12 December 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2007, 49:37 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-49-37 This article is available from: /content/49/1/37 © 2007 Dillard et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Intestinal threadworm Strongyloides stercoralis is a parasite of dog, cat and primates that occurs worldwide being most prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries. The adult parasitic worm is about 2 mm long and slender. It possesses both parasitic and free-living lifecycles. The parasitic worms are females. Strongyloides stercoralis infects the host via percutaneous, peroral