Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2000 |
Authors: | R. R. Manjrekar, Partridge, S. K., Korman, A. K., Barwick, R. S., Juranek, D. D. |
Journal: | Military medicine |
Volume: | 165 |
Issue: | 9 |
Pagination: | 698 - 700 |
Date Published: | 2000 |
ISBN Number: | 0026-4075 |
Keywords: | adolescent, adult, animals, child, Child, Preschool, humans, Infant, insecticide, Lice Infestations/drug therapy/ethnology, Mass Screening, Middle Aged, New Jersey/epidemiology, Pediculus, Permethrin, prevalence, Pyrethrum, scalp dermatoses, Treatment Outcome, Yugoslavia |
Abstract: | We assessed the prevalence of head louse infestation and the effectiveness of 1% permethrin against head lice in Kosovar refugees. A currently infested case was defined as a person with observable crawling lice (adults or nymphs) or a person with nits on the hair shaft within a quarter-inch of the scalp. Of the 1,051 refugees screened upon arrival in the United States, 107 (10%) were infested. Crawling lice (adults or nymphs) were observed on 62 (6%) of the individuals examined. Refugees with crawling lice were treated with a pediculicide containing 1% permethrin. Of these, 57 were reexamined the next day. Twenty of the 57 individuals were reexamined 7 days after treatment. No crawling lice were found on any of the refugees examined after treatment. We conclude that 1% permethrin treatment was effective in louse control in this refugee population. |
Efficacy of 1% permethrin for the treatment of head louse infestations among Kosovar refugees
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