Clinical and epidemiological study of pediculosis capitis in schoolchildren from Coro, Venezuela;Estudio clínico-epidemiológico sobre pediculosis capitis en escolares de Coro, estado Falcón, Venezuela

Investigacion Clinica

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 445-457

  Cazorla, Dalmiro ^a   Ruiz, Aixa ^a   Acosta, María ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Clinic; Epidemiology; Pediculosis; Pediculus capitis; Schoolchildren; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAIR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFESTATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHILD; FEMALE; FOMITES; HUMANS; LICE INFESTATIONS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; PEDICULUS; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; SCALP DERMATOSES; URBAN POPULATION; VENEZUELA;

EID: 38849139717     PISSN: 05355133     EISSN: 05355133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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