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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Case study Open Access Pelodera (syn. Rhabditis) strongyloides as a cause of dermatitis – a report of 11 dogs from Finland Seppo AM Saari* and Sven E Nikander Address: Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences (FINPAR), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 66, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Email: Seppo AM Saari* - seppo.saari@helsinki.fi; Sven E Nikander - sven.nikander@helsinki.fi * Corresponding author Published: 05 September 2006 Received: 06 July 2006 Accepted: 05 September 2006 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48:18 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-18 This article is available from: /content/48/1/18 © 2006 Saari and Nikander; 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: Pelodera (Rhabditis) strongyloides is a small saprophytic nematode that lives in decaying organic matter. On rare occasions, it can invade the mammalian skin, causing a pruritic, erythematous, alopecic and crusting dermatitis on skin sites that come into contact with the ground. Diagnosis of the disease is based on case history (a dog living outdoors on damp straw bedding) with characteristic skin lesions and on the demonstration of typical larvae in skin scrapings