Pediculicide Resistance Not Well Understood - Lancet Editorial
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The mechanism by which head lice become resistant to pediculicides needs further study, Howard Maibach, MD, University of California at San Francisco, et al., suggest in the Aug. 12 issue of The Lancet.
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