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lice infestation

parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease that involves infestation of lice, blood-feeding ectoparasitic insects of the order Phthiraptera
Class type of: ectoparasitism, arthropod infestation, Anoplura infestation Q1343674

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
class of disease
Subclass of
ectoparasitism, arthropod infestation, Anoplura infestation, infectious disease[2][3][4][5]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7]
Drug or therapy used for treatment
permethrin, lindane, malathion, piperonyl butoxide, ivermectin, clorsulon, spinosad, methoxychlor, malathion, permethrin, teflubenzuron[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Health specialty
infectious diseases[10]
ICD-9-CM
132.9[8]
ICPC 2 ID
S73[6]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C128401[9]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Medicine[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Pediculosis, unspecified en Pediculus humanus infection en Pediculosis, unspecified (disorder) en infections, Pediculus humanus en Infestation by Pediculus en Infestation by Pediculus (disorder) en lice infestation en Lice infestation en Lice infestation, NOS en Lice Infestations en Louse infestation en Louse infestation (disorder) en Louse infestation (& [pediculosis and phthirus] or [lice]) en mixed pediculosis en mixed pediculosis (disorder) en mixed pediculosis infestation en pediculosis en pediculosis and phthirus infection en Pediculosis and phthirus infection NOS (disorder) en Pediculosis and phthirus infections
🔖 Identifiers · 33
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85099199
OpenAlex ID
C2779202508
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Fig.4.Louse bites.jpg ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
46569
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
122526437
Disease Ontology ID
DOID:5502
DiseasesDB
9725
EMedicine ID
225013
Elhuyar ZTH ID
029397
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/pediculosis
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org, identifiers.org
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
pediculosi
Show all 33 identifiers +21
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0130426, 0110544
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2335978
Harper's tag
pediculosis
ICD-10-CM
B85.2
ICD-11 ID (Foundation)
1083938812
ICD-11 ID (MMS)
1G00
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
lice-infestations
KEGG ID
H01054
MeSH descriptor ID
D010373
MeSH tree code
C01.610.858.211.465, C17.800.838.775.580
MedlinePlus ID
000840
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779202508
Mondo ID
MONDO_0003472
NALT ID
50005
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007531680205171
Store medisinske leksikon ID
pedikulose
Treccani ID
ftiriasi
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
pediculosi
UMLS CUI
C0030756
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
14477916-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/f8fa4c5c-206b-4daf-b111-491d0bef0df3

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🔗 Connections
Drug or therapy used for treatment 9
ivermectin, lindane, permethrin, permethrin, malathion, malathion, piperonyl butoxide, methoxychlor +1 more
← Medical condition treated 9
ivermectin, lindane, permethrin, permethrin, malathion, malathion, piperonyl butoxide, methoxychlor +1 more
Subtypes 3
Pediculus humanus capitis infestation, Pthirus pubis infestation, Pediculus humanus corporis infestation
Subclass of 2
disease, ectoparasitism
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Health specialty 1
infectious diseases
Instance of 1
infectious disease
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Medicine
← Cause of death 1
Rudolph of France
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Summary

lice infestation is a class of disease[1].

Related Entities

disease infectious disease infectious diseases Rudolph of France

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Drug Indications Extracted from FAERS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pediculosis
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fr', 'gl', 'hy', 'i
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: pediculosis, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954194|pediculosis (#289954194)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → ectoparasitism, arthropod infestation, Anoplura infestation +1
    Instance of → class of disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39943|batch #39943]]: deprecate redundant disease superclasses"
  3. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → ectoparasitism, arthropod infestation, Anoplura infestation +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty → infectious diseases
    Instance of → class of disease
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007531680205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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