Head lice treatments: Searching for the path of least resistance

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-324

  Heymann, Warren R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CHLORPHENOTANE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIMETICONE; GENOMIC DNA; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; OLIVE OIL; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE; PETROLATUM; PYRETHRIN; PYRETHROID; SODIUM CHANNEL; VINEGAR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BUTTER; EYE IRRITATION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PEDICULUS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; WATER IMMERSION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; LICE INFESTATIONS; LINDANE; MALATHION; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEDICULUS; PERMETHRIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALP DERMATOSES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650444864     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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