Louni, Meriem
Amanzougaghene, Nadia
Mana, Nassima
Fenollar, Florence
Raoult, Didier
Bitam, Idir
Mediannikov, Oleg
Article History
Received: 21 February 2018
Accepted: 1 June 2018
First Online: 15 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Algerian Red Crescent organization (292/CRA/PRE), Algeria. Head lice were collected from the scalps of Nigerien refugees arriving in Algeria during a registered epidemiological study. Verbal consent was obtained from each infested individual. Written consent could not be obtained because most of the subjects involved in the study were illiterate. The anonymity of the individuals who provided the lice used in the present study was preserved. Meanwhile, head lice samples from the local population were collected from the scalps of schholchildren under the approvement of the Ministry of National Education in Algeria (No. N14/0.0.2/224) with the parents’ explicit verbal consent.
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