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Management and Treatment of Human Lice
Of the three lice (head, body, and pubic louse) that infest humans, the body louse is the species involved in epidemics of louse-borne typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever, but all the three cause pediculosis. Their infestations occur today in many countries despite great efforts to maintain hi...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27529073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8962685 |
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author | Sangaré, Abdoul Karim Doumbo, Ogobara K. Raoult, Didier |
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description | Of the three lice (head, body, and pubic louse) that infest humans, the body louse is the species involved in epidemics of louse-borne typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever, but all the three cause pediculosis. Their infestations occur today in many countries despite great efforts to maintain high standards of public health. In this review, literature searches were performed through PubMed, Medline, Google Scholar, and EBSCOhost, with key search words of “Pediculus humanus”, “lice infestation”, “pediculosis”, and “treatment”; and controlled clinical trials were viewed with great interest. Removing lice by hand or with a lice comb, heating infested clothing, and shaving the scalp were some of the oldest methods of controlling human lice. Despite the introduction of other resources including cresol, naphthalene, sulfur, mercury, vinegar, petroleum, and insecticides, the numbers of lice infestation cases and resistance have increased. To date, viable alternative treatments to replace insecticides have been developed experimentally in vitro. Today, the development of new treatment strategies such as symbiotic treatment and synergistic treatment (antibiotics + ivermectin) in vitro has proved effective and is promising. Here, we present an overview on managing and treating human lice and highlight new strategies to more effectively fight pediculosis and prevent resistance. |
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spelling | pubmed-49788202016-08-15 Management and Treatment of Human Lice Sangaré, Abdoul Karim Doumbo, Ogobara K. Raoult, Didier Biomed Res Int Review Article Of the three lice (head, body, and pubic louse) that infest humans, the body louse is the species involved in epidemics of louse-borne typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever, but all the three cause pediculosis. Their infestations occur today in many countries despite great efforts to maintain high standards of public health. In this review, literature searches were performed through PubMed, Medline, Google Scholar, and EBSCOhost, with key search words of “Pediculus humanus”, “lice infestation”, “pediculosis”, and “treatment”; and controlled clinical trials were viewed with great interest. Removing lice by hand or with a lice comb, heating infested clothing, and shaving the scalp were some of the oldest methods of controlling human lice. Despite the introduction of other resources including cresol, naphthalene, sulfur, mercury, vinegar, petroleum, and insecticides, the numbers of lice infestation cases and resistance have increased. To date, viable alternative treatments to replace insecticides have been developed experimentally in vitro. Today, the development of new treatment strategies such as symbiotic treatment and synergistic treatment (antibiotics + ivermectin) in vitro has proved effective and is promising. Here, we present an overview on managing and treating human lice and highlight new strategies to more effectively fight pediculosis and prevent resistance. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4978820/ /pubmed/27529073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8962685 Text en Copyright © 2016 Abdoul Karim Sangaré et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Sangaré, Abdoul Karim Doumbo, Ogobara K. Raoult, Didier Management and Treatment of Human Lice |
title | Management and Treatment of Human Lice |
title_full | Management and Treatment of Human Lice |
title_fullStr | Management and Treatment of Human Lice |
title_full_unstemmed | Management and Treatment of Human Lice |
title_short | Management and Treatment of Human Lice |
title_sort | management and treatment of human lice |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27529073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8962685 |
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