In general, patients are more at risk from typhus, trench fever, rickettsial infections, and other diseases spread by lice than from the lice themselves.
Pediculosis corporsis- is an infestation with body lice.
An 'infestation'
Blood tests or other laboratory tests are not useful in diagnosing lice infestations.
Two doses of the ivermectin cured 99% of cases of head lice as well as intestinal worms in a poor population with high rates of infestation with both types of parasites.
If the infestation is not treated, the patient may develop complications that include headache, fever, and bacterial infection with scarring.
Pediculosis corporsis- is an infestation with body lice.
Pediculosis this is an infestation of lice whether it be body lice, pubic lice or head lice.
Most treatments apply to all types of lice infestation and, particularly with head lice, treatments are an area of great controversy.
An 'infestation'
Public lice are an infestation (of insects), not an infection.
Lice infestation does not provide immunity against reinfection; recurrences are in fact quite common.
Lousy.
Lousy.
Pubic lice infestation has no long-term effects.
All those who have lice infestation - Pediculosis - in their hair have nits (eggs of lice).
No, infestation of the hair and skin with lice is known as pediculosis. Impetigo is a bacterial infection of the skin that typically presents with honey-colored crusts.
Lice infestation is a serious public health problem because some lice can carry organisms that cause other diseases, including relapsing fever, trench fever, and epidemic typhus.