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View larger version (36K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. A 14-year-old girl and her 6-year-old sister presented with pruritus in the postauricular area. Multiple small, white capsules were found firmly attached to their hair. Examination of the hair under a light microscope at a magnification of 100 showed unhatched, tulip-shaped eggs, or nits, on the hair shaft (Panel A). The patients were infested with Pediculus humanus subspecies capitis, or head lice, blood-sucking ectoparasites of the order Anoplura. A female head louse (Panel B) is about 4 mm in length and remains confined to the scalp, attached to the hair shaft with its pincer-like claws (arrow).

 
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