Burgess, I. F. (1998) Head lice: developing a practical approach. The Practitioner, 242, 126–9.Google ScholarPubMed

Burgess, I. F. (2004) Lice and their control. Annual Review of Entomology, 49, 457–81.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Burgess, I. F., Brown, C. M. and Lee, P. N. (2005) Treatment of head louse infestation with 4% dimeticone lotion: randomised controlled equivalence trial. BMJ, 330, 1423–5.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Buxton, P. A. (1948) The Louse: an Account of the Lice which Infest Man, Their Medical Importance and Control, 2nd edn. London: Edward Arnold.Google Scholar

Chetwyn, K. N. (1996) An overview of mass disinfestation procedures as a means to prevent epidemic typhus. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Insect Pests in the Urban Environment (ICIPUE), ed. Wildey, K. B.. The Organising Committee of the ICIPUE, pp. 421–6.Google Scholar

Gratz, N. G. (1997) Human Lice: Their Prevalence, Control and Resistance to Insecticides. A Review 1985–1997. CTD/WHOPES/97.8. Geneva: World Health Organization.Google Scholar

Hill, N., Moor, G., Cameron, M. M.et al. (2005) Single blind, randomised, comparative study of the Bug Buster kit and over the counter pediculicide treatments against head lice in the United Kingdom. BMJ, 331, 384–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Kristensen, M., Knorr, M., Rasmussen, A.-M., and Jespersen, J. B. (2006) Survey of permethrin and malathion resistance in human head lice populations from Denmark. Journal of Medical Entomology, 43, 533–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Meinking, T., Burkhart, C. N. and Burkhart, C. G. (1999) Ectoparasitic diseases in dermatology: reassessment of scabies and pediculosis. Advances in Dermatology, 15, 77–108.Google Scholar

Mumcuoglu, K. Y. (1996) Control of lice (Anoplura: Pediculidae) infestations: past and present. American Entomologist, 42, 175–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Orkin, M. and Maibach, H. I. (eds.) (1985) Cutaneous Infestations and Insect Bites. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker. See Chapters 19–26 on lice.Google Scholar

Service, M. W. (ed.) (2001) The Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections of Man and Domesticated Animals. Wallingford: CABI. See Hechemy, K. E. and Burton, B. E., Bartonella quintana and Bartonella henselae, pp. 70–3; Hechemy, K. E. and Azad, A. F., Epidemic typhus, pp. 170–4; and Warrell, D. A., Louse-borne relapsing fever, pp. 295–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar