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| Pediculosis | |
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| Pediculus humanus capitis (♀) | |
| Specialty | Infectious disease |
Pediculosis is an infestation of lice from the sub-order Anoplura, family Pediculidae. Accordingly, the infestation with head lice is named pediculosis capitis, while this with body lice, pediculosis corporis.[1][2] Although pediculosis in humans may properly refer to lice infestation of any part of the body, the term is sometimes used loosely to refer to pediculosis capitis, the infestation of the human head with the specific head louse.
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- ^ Maunder JW (1983). "The appreciation of lice". Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 55. London: Royal Institution of Great Britain: 1–31.