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Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice
Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) infestation is an important disease worldwide, especially in children under 11 years old. Permethrin is the most common insecticide for treatment of human pediculosis, but nowadays resistance to permethrin and other pyrethroids has caused many treatment failures...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.899 |
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author | Jahangiri, Farhad |
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description | Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) infestation is an important disease worldwide, especially in children under 11 years old. Permethrin is the most common insecticide for treatment of human pediculosis, but nowadays resistance to permethrin and other pyrethroids has caused many treatment failures. The second treatment of choice is malathion. |
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spelling | pubmed-54128002017-05-03 Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice Jahangiri, Farhad Clin Case Rep Case Reports Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) infestation is an important disease worldwide, especially in children under 11 years old. Permethrin is the most common insecticide for treatment of human pediculosis, but nowadays resistance to permethrin and other pyrethroids has caused many treatment failures. The second treatment of choice is malathion. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5412800/ /pubmed/28469858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.899 Text en © 2017 The Author. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Jahangiri, Farhad Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
title | Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
title_full | Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
title_fullStr | Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
title_full_unstemmed | Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
title_short | Case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
title_sort | case report: a new method for treatment of permethrin – resistant head lice |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.899 |
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