Household-wide ivermectin treatment for head lice in an impoverished community: randomized observer-blinded controlled trial

Household-wide ivermectin treatment for head lice in an impoverished community: randomized observer-blinded controlled trial

OBJECTIVE: To generate evidence on the effectiveness of household-wide treatment for preventing the transmission of pediculosis capitis (head lice) in resource-poor communities. METHODS: We studied 132 children without head lice who lived in a slum in north-eastern Brazil. We randomized the househol...

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Main Authors: Daniel Pilger, Jorg Heukelbach, Adak Khakban, Fabiola Araujo Oliveira, Gernot Fengler, Hermann Feldmeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2010-02-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000200009&lng=en&tlng=en

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