Activity of tea tree oil and nerolidol alone or in combination against Pediculus capitis (head lice) and its eggs

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1985-1992

  Di Campli, Emanuela ^a   Di Bartolomeo, Soraya ^a   Delli Pizzi, Patricia ^b   Di Giulio, Mara ^a   Grande, Rossella ^a   Nostro, Antonia ^c   Cellini, Luigina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Union Health Srl ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; NEROLIDOL; TEA TREE OIL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; ITALY; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITOSIS; PEDICULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; ITALY; MALE; OVUM; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEDICULUS; SESQUITERPENES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEA TREE OIL; TIME FACTORS;

MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CAPITIS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 84868115589     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3045-0     Document Type: Article

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