Reliability of parental reports of head lice in their children

• 1 Communicable Diseases Section, Department of Human Services, Level 17/120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
• 2 Centre for International Child Health and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC
• 3 School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD.

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