Ectoparasitic Infestations

Follow the links below to find information on ectoparasitic infestations, including lice and scabies.

Reviewed March 2011

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Head Lice

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Scabies

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Title:   Body lice
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis) are small blood-sucking insects that live inside clothing, particularly the seams. People who live in unhygienic and crowded conditions are most susceptible to body lice infestations. Unlike head lice, body lice can transmit diseases such as typhus in conditions of social upheaval such as natural disaster or wartime.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Pubic lice (crabs)
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Pubic lice (Phthirus pubis), or crab lice, infest pubic hair. They can also sometimes affect the hair of the armpit, eyebrows, eyelashes, beard and torso. Pubic lice are usually sexually transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact. Lice infestation causes no serious harm, but is a warning that you should be tested for other sexually transmissible infections (STIs).
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Pubic lice (crabs)
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Pubic lice are brown or grey in colour, one to three millimetres in size and shaped like tiny crabs. They live in hair of the pubic area, body and armpits and may also live in strong hair of the face such as beards and eyelashes. Lice feed on human blood. The female lays eggs (nits) which attach to hair and clothing. The eggs hatch in six to 10 days. Lice can live up to four weeks on the human body, but die within 24 hours away from the human body on items such as clothes and bedding.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Pubic lice
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Pubic lice are more commonly called 'crabs'. For more information on how you get them, symptoms, and treatment, check out this fact sheet.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Crabs (pubic lice)
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Crabs are tiny little lice that cause a lot of itching around the genitals, in the pubic hair and other coarse body hair.
Date:   Jan 2012
Title:   Pubic lice (crabs)
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   A description of pubic lice is given, how someone gets infected is explained and information about treatment is also presented.
Date:   Sep 2006

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