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High frequency of mutations associated with head lice pyrethroid resistance in schoolchildren from Bobigny, France.
Journal of medical entomology - 1 Jan 2011
Durand Rémy, Bouvresse Sophie, Andriantsoanirina Valérie, Berdjane Zohra, Chosidow Olivier, Izri Arezki
Abstract excerpt
Resistance of head lice to pyrethroids induces difficult therapeutic problems. Previous studies demonstrated that this resistance was present in a French urban area, but its prevalence needed to be more precisely evaluated in terms of genotyping lice collected from more infested children over a certain period of time. We monitored the presence of the head lice kdr-like haplotype of the voltage-gated sodium...
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