What's eating you? Pediculus humanus (head louse and body louse)

Cutis

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 259-264

  Elston, Dirk M ^a,b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Lackland Air Force Base ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBARIL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; INSECTICIDE; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; PERMETHRIN; PETROLATUM; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PYRETHRIN; PYRETHROID; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CARBARYL; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; IVERMECTIN; LICE INFESTATIONS; LINDANE; MALATHION; MALE; PEDICULUS; PERMETHRIN; PETROLATUM; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PYRETHRINS; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0033126196     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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