Plastic detection comb better than visual screening for diagnosis of head louse infestation
| Autor: | Ian F. Burgess, M. T. Şahin, Cuneyt Balcioglu, Mehmet Emin Limoncu, Yusuf Özbel, Özgür Kurt, K. S. Larsen, Cemal Bilaç |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ege Üniversitesi |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Rural Population Veterinary medicine medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Turkey Epidemiology Pediculosis education Combing Louse medicine.disease_cause biology.animal Infestation parasitic diseases medicine Animals Humans Mass Screening skin and connective tissue diseases Child Physical Examination Schools biology fungi Pediculus Lice Infestations medicine.disease Original Papers humanities Surgery Visual inspection Infectious Diseases Female Visual screening Head lice infestation Permethrin medicine.drug |
| Popis: | WOS: 000260579500018 PubMed ID: 18177517 Finding lice can be difficult in head louse infestation. We compared a new louse detection comb with visual inspection. All children in two rural Turkish schools were screened by the two methods. Those with lice were offered treatment and the results monitored by detection combing Children with nits only were re-screened to identify latent infestations. Using visual inspection we found 214 461 children (46%) with nits but only 30 (6.5%) with live lice. In contrast detection combing found 96 (21%) with live lice. of whom 20 had no nits. Detection combing was 3.84 times more effective than visual inspection for finding live lice. Only 10/138 (7.2%) children with nits and no lice were Found to have active infestation by day 16. We found that the detection comb is significantly (P |
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