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| Title |
PREHISTORICAL Pediculus humanus capitis INFESTATION: QUANTITATIVE DATA AND LOW VACUUM SCANNING MICROSCOPY
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| Published in |
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1590/s0036-46652014000200005 |
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| Authors |
Juliana M F Dutra, Arthur Daniel Alves, Thaila Pessanha, Rachel Rachid, Wanderley de Souza, Pedro Marcos Linardi, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Adauto Araujo |
| Abstract |
A pre-Columbian Peruvian scalp was examined decades ago by a researcher from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Professor Olympio da Fonseca Filho described nits and adult lice attached to hair shafts and commented about the origin of head lice infestations on mankind. This same scalp was sent to our laboratory and is the subject of the present paper. Analysis showed a massive infestation with nine eggs/cm2 and an impressive number of very well preserved adult lice. The infestation age was roughly estimated as nine months before death based on the distance of nits from the hair root and the medium rate of hair growth. A small traditional textile was associated with the scalp, possibly part of the funerary belongings. Other morphological aspects visualized by low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy are also presented here for adults and nits. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 12 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 12 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 17% |
| Researcher | 1 | 8% |
| Professor | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 50% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 58% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 June 2019.
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#52
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