Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Authors: | J. Vianna Barbosa, Pinto Z. Teixeira |
Journal: | Entomologia y Vectores |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pagination: | 579 - 586 |
Date Published: | 2003 |
Abstract: | Pediculosis is an illness that have had been known since the remotest times until the days of today, being considered a Public Health serious problem in all Americas. Lice are blood-sucking insects and specific parasites of human beings: Pediculus humanus capitis, head lice; Pediculus humanus corporis, body lice and Phthirus pubis,pubic lice. The article is going to show aspects tied to louse, suches: biology, distribution, clinical manifestation and diagnosis. Beyond, of some controls that have been used in Brazil, like: chemical, homemade and educational control. |
URL: | http://www.phthiraptera.info/Publications/47001.pdf |