Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a Finnish kennel 英文参考文献.docVIP

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMedCentral Case report Open Access Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a Finnish kennel Kati J Dillard1, Seppo AM Saari2 and Marjukka Anttila*1 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 or transmammary transmission in addition to autoinfection. Clinical disease varies from inapparent to severe enteritis and pneumonia. The diagnosis is based on demonstration of larvae in fresh faeces, which is best made by Baermann technique. Case presentation: Strongyloides stercoralis infection was diagnosed in autopsy in a 10-week-old puppy born and raised in a Finnish kennel. Prior to its sudden death, the puppy had suffered from gastrointestinal disturbance for three weeks. Subsequent sampling of the dogs in the kennel re