Clinical report - Head lice

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 392-403

  Frankowski, Barbara L ^a   Bocchini Jr , Joseph A ^a   Murray, Robert D ^a   Grant, Linda M ^a   Magalnick, Harold ^a   Roland, Michele M ^a   Mears, Cynthia ^a   Gereige, Rani S ^a   Lamont, Jeffrey H ^a   Monteverdi, George J ^a   Pattishall III, Evan G ^a   Wheeler, Lani S M ^a   Devore, Cynthia DiLaura ^a   Barnett, Stephen E ^a   Anderson, Wendy ^a   Okamoto, Jeffrey ^a   Minier, Mark ^a   Holmes, Breena ^a   Brady, Michael T ^a   Baltimore, Robert S ^a   Bernstein, Henry H ^a   Bradley, John S ^a   Byington, Carrie L ^a   Dennehy, Penelope H ^a   Fisher, Margaret C ^a   Frenck Jr , Robert W ^a   Glode, Mary P ^a   Jackson, Mary Anne ^a   Keyserling, Harry L ^a   Kimberlin, David W ^a   McMillan, Julia A ^a   Orenstein, Walter A ^a   Rubin, Lorry G ^a   Schutze, Gordon E ^a   Willoughby, Rodney E ^a   more..

^a NONE

Author keywords

Children; Head lice; Infestation; School

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ANISE OIL; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZYL ALCOHOL; CETAPHIL; CLEAR LICE SYSTEM; COCONUT OIL; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CROTAMITON; DIMETICONE; HAIR CLEAN 1 2 3; IVERMECTIN; LICEMD; LINDANE; MALATHION; MARGARINE; OLIVE OIL; OVIDE; PERMETHRIN; PETROLATUM; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PRONTO; PYRETHRIN; R AND C; RESULTZ; ULESFIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINEGAR; WD 40; YLANG YLANG OIL;

ANXIETY; BURNING SENSATION; BUTTER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; DESICCATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EYE IRRITATION; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; LOTION; MORBIDITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PARENT; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PYODERMA; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEIZURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PEDICULUS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955500877     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1308     Document Type: Review

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