News tagged with lice
Body lice originate from head lice
Body lice, which cause highly lethal epidemics (trench fever, typhus and relapsing fever Borrelia), originate from head lice. This has recently been shown by a team from the Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Scabies pill also works against resistant lice: study
Ivermectin, a pill prescribed for the skin disease known as scabies, also gets rid of hair lice that are resistant to conventional lotions, a study published on Thursday says.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Ichneumon wasp back in favor
The Aphidius matricariae wasp of the Ichneumon family was widely used to get rid of plant lice in greenhouse agriculture up to fifteen years ago. Since then, it has given way to its American cousin, Aphidius colemani. A comparative ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Study shows that suffocating head lice works in new treatment
A new non-neurotoxic treatment for head lice has been found to have an average of 91.2% treatment success rate after one week, and to be safe in humans from six months of age and up. This is the finding of a study published ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Houndstongue is a controllable problem on range and wild lands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Houndstongue--also known as beggar's lice, dog's tongue, sheep bur and woolmat--is not only a general nuisance to those of you who find its sticky seeds stuck in your shoelaces or the hair of your dogs and ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Lice genomes: Pieces of a new puzzle
Parents and school nurses take note. Lice are a familiar nuisance around the world and vectors of serious diseases, such as epidemic typhus, in developing regions. New research indicates that lice may actually ...
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Wet combing more accurate than visual inspection for identifying active head lice infestation
Combing through a child's wet hair may lead to more accurate identification of active head lice infestation than visual inspection, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journa ...
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Pubic hair provides evolutionary home for gorilla lice
There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus. A new article in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology suggests one explanation for ...
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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New finding about the bane of parents' lives -- head lice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Head lice are a challenge for parents of primary-school aged children all around the world, including Australia.
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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