Human Lice and Their Control

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 457-481

  Burgess, Ian F ^a  

^a Insect R and D Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body lice; Head lice; Insecticides; Pediculosis; Pediculus humanus

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

DISEASE CONTROL; INSECTICIDE; LOUSE;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; PARASITOLOGY; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; LICE INFESTATIONS; PEDICULUS; PHYLOGENY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; PEDICULUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 1042267909     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123253     Document Type: Review

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