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Body Lice and Pubic Lice

open access: yesEDIS, 2007
This document provides an overview of body lice and pubic lice, detailing their biology, transmission, symptoms, and treatment. Body lice, which can transmit diseases like typhus, are less common in the U.S., while pubic lice are a significant nuisance.
C.W. Scherer, P.G. Koehler
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Acclimatisation with lice-infested salmon improves cleaner fish lice consumption [PDF]

open access: yesAquaculture Environment Interactions, 2021
Securing the welfare and maximising the lice removal efficacy of ~60 million cleaner fish used each year on salmonid farms is essential to develop a productive and ethical industry with low salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis levels.
K Gentry   +5 more
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Head Lice [PDF]

open access: yesPediatrics, 2010
Head lice infestation is associated with limited morbidity but causes a high level of anxiety among parents of school-aged children. Since the 2002 clinical report on head lice was published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, patterns of resistance ...
Joseph A. Bocchini   +2 more
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Head Lice [PDF]

open access: yesDeutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2016
Conflicting information about the proper treatment of head lice has given rise to uncertainty among patients and treating personnel. For example, the reported efficacy of permethrin fell from 97% in the 1990s to 30% in 2010.Review of the literature based on a selective search of PubMed.In Germany, outbreaks of head lice mainly occur among 5- to 13-year-
Laura, Meister, Falk, Ochsendorf
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The potential for cleaner fish‐driven evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis: Genetic or environmental control of pigmentation?

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
The parasitic salmon louse represents one of the biggest challenges to environmentally sustainable salmonid aquaculture across the globe. This species also displays a high evolutionary potential, as demonstrated by its rapid development of resistance to ...
Lars Are Hamre   +4 more
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Interacting Effects of Sea Louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) Infection and Formalin-Killed Aeromonas salmonicida on Atlantic Salmon Skin Transcriptome

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2022
Lepeophtheirus salmonis (sea lice) and bacterial co-infection threatens wild and farmed Atlantic salmon performance and welfare. In the present study, pre-adult L.
Albert Caballero-Solares   +11 more
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Small, charged proteins in salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) secretions modulate Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) immune responses and coagulation

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Little is known about glandular proteins secreted from the skin- and blood-feeding ectoparasite salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). The labial gland has ducts extending into the oral cavity of the lice, and the present study aimed to identify novel ...
Aina-Cathrine Øvergård   +9 more
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Identify the biting lice attacking the chickens in Arbil governorat [PDF]

open access: yesIraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2007
This study was conducted to identify the biting lice attacking the chickens in twenty locations within Arbil governorate. Results showed that the chickens were infested with six species of lice that are chicken body lice (Menacanthus stramineus), feather
R. A. Aliraqi, Kh. A. H. Amin
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Head Lice [PDF]

open access: yesPediatrics, 2015
This Clinical Report was revised. See https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-059282. Head lice infestation is associated with limited morbidity but causes a high level of anxiety among parents of school-aged children. Since the 2010 clinical report on head lice was published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, newer medications have been ...
Cynthia D. Devore   +26 more
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Molecular investigation and genetic diversity of Pediculus and Pthirus lice in France

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Humans are parasitized by three types of lice: body, head and pubic lice. As their common names imply, each type colonizes a specific region of the body. The body louse is the only recognized disease vector. However, an increasing awareness of
Nadia Amanzougaghene   +6 more
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