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Infestation of eyelashes by Pediculus humanus capitis (family: pediculidae): a case report [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background This case report describes a rare instance of Pediculus humanus capitis infestation affecting the eyelashes of a 10-year-old boy, notable for its ocular implications and unique diagnostic challenges.
Madineh Abbasi, Saideh Yousefi
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Morphological discrimination of human lice (Anoplura: Pediculidae) by eggs’ cap-like operculum [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Human lice have long been parasites of humans and are responsible for several epidemics in human medical history. However, their morphology, particularly head and body lice, remains very similar.
Mohammad Akhoundi, Hantatiana Juliana Heriniaina, Sophie Brun, Emma Benamari, Arezki Izri   +4 more
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Pyrethroid-linked resistance allelic mutations by molecular analysis in wild human head louse (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) populations from schoolgirls of South Iran [PDF]

Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2022
Background: Human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis De Geer, 1767 (Anoplura: Pediculidae), is one of the most frequent ectoparasites infesting Homo sapiens worldwide.
J. Mohammadi, H. Alipour, K. Azizi, M. Shahriari-Namadi, M. Kalantari, S. Ebrahimi, M.D. Moemenbellah-Fard   +6 more
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Crab Louse, Pthirus pubis (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Phthiraptera (Anoplura): Pediculidae)

EDIS, 2002
This document is EENY-103, one of a series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date July 1999. Reviewed May 2003.
H. V. Weems, Jr., Thomas R. Fasulo
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Forecasting head lice (Pediculidae: Pediculus humanus capitis) infestation incidence hotspots based on spatial correlation analysis in Northwest Iran [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2020
Background and Aim: Pediculus humanus capitis has been prevalent throughout the world, especially in developing countries among elementary students and societies with a weak socio-economic status.
Davoud Adham, Eslam Moradi-Asl, Malek Abazari, Abedin Saghafipour, Parisa Alizadeh   +4 more
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Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for the investigation of blood-sucking arthropods dyed via artificial membrane feeding [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Physical methods to control pest arthropods are increasing in importance, but detailed knowledge of the effects of some of these methods on the target organisms is lacking.
Lars ten Bosch, Birgit Habedank, Alessia Candeo, Andrea Bassi, Gianluca Valentini, Christoph Gerhard   +5 more
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In vitro experiments of Pediculus humanus capitis (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) resistance to permethrin and 6-paradol in East Jakarta: Detoxification enzyme activity and electron microscopic changes in lice [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2021
Background and Aim: Pediculus humanus capitis, the human head louse, remains a global health problem. This study evaluated the resistance of head lice to permethrin and 6-paradol mediated by in vitro detoxification enzyme activity experiments and to ...
Rizal Subahar, Lisawati Susanto, Rachmanin Aidilla, Annisa Putri Aulia, Yulhasri Yulhasri, Rawina Winita, Nadar S. Lubis, Ika Puspa Sari   +7 more
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Prevalence and Susceptibility Status of Body Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) (Anoplura: Pediculidae) to Deltamethrin in Urmia City, Iran (2024) [PDF]

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases
Background: The body louse spreads diseases such as epidemic typhus and louse-borne relapsing fever and has shown resistance to various insecticides.
Samira Firooziyan, Ahmadali Enayati, Ehsan Rikhtegar, Tahereh Sadat Asgarian, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat   +4 more
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First evidence of the mutations associated with pyrethroid resistance in head lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) from Honduras [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background The human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis, is a cosmopolitan blood-sucking ectoparasite affecting mostly schoolchildren in both developed and developing countries. In Honduras, chemical pediculicides are the first line of treatment, with
Kelsey Larkin, Carol A. Rodriguez, Shabana Jamani, Georgina Fronza, Gonzalo Roca-Acevedo, Ana Sanchez, Ariel C. Toloza   +6 more
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Molecular detection of novel Glutamate-gated chloride channel mutations in field collected human head lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) from Iran [PDF]

BMC Research Notes
Objective Recently, insecticides such as ivermectin, which targets glutamate-gated chloride channel (GluCl) channels in the nervous system of invertebrates, have gained attention for the treatment of head lice.
Vahid Mansouri, Saber Gholizadeh
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