Therapy for head lice based on life cycle, resistance, and safety considerations

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 965-974

  Lebwohl, Mark ^a   Clark, Lily ^a   Levitt, Jacob ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head lice; Life cycle; Malathion; Resistance

Indexed keywords

A 200; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; OLIVE OIL; OVIDE; PERMETHRIN; PETROLATUM; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PRONTO PLUS; PYRETHRIN; PYRETHROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINEGAR;

ALLERGIC RASH; ASTHMA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; EGG LAYING; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NIT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PEDICULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; LICE INFESTATIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALATHION; PEDICULUS; PERMETHRIN;

EID: 34248170698     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-3087     Document Type: Review

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