Drug-resistant lice

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1061-1064

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CHLORPHENOTANE; DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INSECTICIDE; MALATHION; OVIDE; PERMETHRIN;

DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; HEAD; HUMAN; LOUSE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PEDICULUS; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALATHION; PEDICULUS; PERMETHRIN;

EID: 0042021719     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.139.8.1061     Document Type: Editorial

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