Kosta Y Mumcuoglu

..Health providers such as physicians, nurses and pharmacists should be knowledgeable about the biology of head lice and the ways to control them effectively, in order to reduce the proportion of children infested with head lice...

..Head lice move easily from head to head. The lack of safe, effective repellents leads to reinfestation...

..It usually affects the face area causing major esthetical problems. The pathogenesis of demodicosis is not fully understood; however, it is quite apparent that immunological mechanisms mediate its development...

..The biology of the mite, the clinical aspects and diagnosis of scabies infestations as well as the treatment of choice with 5% permethrin dermal cream and the use of scabicides based on other chemical substances are reviewed...

..sylviarum, and in one out of 18 pools of D. gallinae, while 63 pools of A. reflexus, 11 of R. sanguineus, and 30 of Hyalomma spec. were negative. The role of mites and ticks in maintaining the endemic state of WNV in Israel is discussed...

..The no-nit policy, based on the persistence of empty egg cases, is not justified and does more harm than good; therefore, we recommend that it be immediately halted...

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..To partially characterise maggot-secreted antibacterial substances and determine their range of activity against different bacteria...

..Over the past 20-25 years, 15-20% of all children in Israel between 4 and 13 years of age have been infested with head lice. This is mainly due to the existence of ineffective pediculicides on the market...

..Most treated leeches were ready to take a blood meal after treatment, suggesting the possibility of using ciprofloxacin-treated leeches instead of chemoprophylaxis in patients undergoing hirudotherapy...

..The policy also results in serious psychological problems for children and their parents. Therefore, the "no nit" policy should be abandoned and alternative ways of examination and treatment for head lice should be found...

..pteronyssinus-antigen (Der p I) were measured during the month of September. A positive correlation between mite numbers and the quantity of Der p I in house dust was found...

..The psychological effect of an infestation with lice is significant and often associated with anxiety and fear. The child should not be made to feel responsible for having lice, or be punished or reprimanded...

..The direct visual examination technique underestimates active infestation and detects past, nonactive infestations...

..Lice fed on rabbit blood took significantly larger amounts of blood, lived longer and laid a higher mean number of eggs per female than lice fed on human blood...

..It is a simple, efficient, well tolerated and cost-effective tool for the treatment of wounds and ulcers, which do not respond to conventional treatment and surgical intervention...

..Over the past 20-25 years, 15-20% of all children in Israel between 4 and 13 years of age have been infested with head lice. This is mainly due to the existence of ineffective pediculicides on the market...

..Studies conducted worldwide have shown that MDT is an effective, simple, quick and cost-effective treatment modality for the chronic wounds, unresponsive to surgical and other conventional methods...

..bovis and Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii in Israel. To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first report describing the detection of DNA of the latter two pathogens in R. sanguineus, and of A. bovis in R. turanicus...

..The epidemiology and ecology of SFGR in Israel appear to be more complicated than was previously believed...

..The comparison of the tarsus of this specimen with the legs of present day third instar nymphs of body and head lice revealed that the leg found within the archaeological debris belongs to a body louse...

..Recently, the technique was employed for the confirmation of the clinical diagnosis of scabies.We demonstrate the first ever documentation of a larva moving freely inside the skin of a patient infected with scabies...

..These results indicate that, in criminal cases where there has been close contact between assailant and victim, louse bloodmeals should not be overlooked as potentially critical evidence...

..Nymphs were more sensitive than females. The average number of eggs laid by surviving females and the percentage that hatched from those eggs were lower than in controls...

..The treatment was repeated after 10 days. The eyelashes were treated by application of the permethrin solution with a cotton-tip swab...

..coli was destroyed in the midgut. Most of the remaining bacteria were killed in the hindgut, indicating that the feces were either sterile or contained only small numbers of bacteria...

..No rats were caught in this settlement. These data indicate that there is a correlation among the density of domestic animals, their ectoparasites, and the incidence of spotted fever group Rickettsiae and murine typhus in Rahat...

..3 versus 48.3%), between controls and lice with two amputated legs (13.3 versus 68.3%), and between lice with one and two amputated legs (48.3 versus 68.3%)...

..Atopic dermatitis is a common allergic condition in children, often associated with a positive skin reaction to house dust mite allergens...

..For most of these ectoparasites, this is the first record on roe deer. All ectoparasite species were documented in Israel prior to the reintroduction program; exotic ectoparasites were not detected...

..Most patients flare during the summer. The facial distribution, seasonality and pathogenesis, as well as the species of mite involved, must be taken into consideration in separating the various forms of demodicosis...

..The sequences were all identical to those of Ap-variant 1 strain...

..CONCLUSION: We believe that MDT is a rapid and effective method for the debridement of chronic wounds in a military environment especially in times of war in developing countries...

..Multiple bites and local pruritus are characteristic symptoms. Treatment is usually symptomatic and includes antihistamines and corticosteroids. The reappearance of the symptoms can be prevented by successful control of the parasite...