What are the best practices for documenting a lice infestation in a school setting?

Jul 27, 2015 ... What makes head lice different from body lice? Previous genetic studies failed to find any substantial differences between the two types of ... Nov 14, 2012 ... Cooties come in three varieties: head lice, body lice and pubic lice ... He measured the difference between snippets of DNA in the two louse ... Jun 6, 2023 ... ... difference in the antimicrobial activity of defensins between the body and head lice. Furthermore, the efficacy of louse defensins against ... ... differentiate quickly between the two ecotypes (22). Now, it is possible to differentiate between head and body lice, including those collected from the ... Jul 27, 2016 ... Otherwise, the main differences identified between head lice and body lice concern gene expression levels [51]. Indeed, 14 putative ... Mar 2, 2017 ... The presence of nits does not mean that in infestation is active. It is difficult to tell the difference between a live nit and one from which ... Head lice almost always occur on the head, where they attach their eggs (called nits) to the hair, whereas body lice prefer to live in the clothing, from which ... Jul 25, 2024 ... Dandruff consists of flakes on the scalp itself that fall off easily, while lice eggs—called nits—stick to strands of hair and are hard to ... Apr 8, 2025 ... Body lice range in size from 2-4 mm. Female lice are larger than male lice. Like the head louse, the body louse is flat and white to gray with a ... Sep 26, 2012 ... No difference in genetic diversity was found between head and body louse populations and no evidence of significant structure between the louse ...