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Combing through a child’s wet hair seems to be a more accurate way of finding active head lice compared with visual checks, researchers say.

In the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Archives of Dermatology, doctors in Germany compared the diagnostic accuracy of visual inspection and wet combing for 300 students aged six to 12 at schools with epidemics of head lice in 2007.

Pohl-Boskamp & Co. KG of Hohenlockstedt, Germany, a producer of a pediculicide and combs, provided the head lice combs free of charge for the study.

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