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pediculosis integumentary disease caused ectoparasite pediculus humanus capitis infests human hair common public health problem prominent worldwide elementary school children current study aimed investigate prevalence risk factors genetic diversity p humanus capitis among primary school children erbil province purpose study conducted october 2019 december 2019 among 1100 randomly selected elementary school children aged 612 data collection performed via regular questionnaire physical hair examination genetic diversity part collecting one louse randomly individual dna extracted mitochondrial cox1 gene amplified universal primer pcr gene sequencing performed abi bioneer south korea data analysis done chisquare ttest using spss ver 23 overall infestation rate 2127 rate significantly higher among females 3493 compared males 791 variables found prevalence rate strongly affected included age rate significant 2687 age group 89 years compared age groups according hair length rate significantly increased 3652 among children tall hair terms hair type incidence curlyhaired children significantly higher 3154 terms hair color significant differences among blonde children 2590 others according results cox1 gene sequencing 234 infested children lice 86 3675 exposed clade 38 1624 exposed clade b clade c seen among children 0 105 students 4487 exposed clade 5 exposed clade e 214 eventually significantly higher incidence 3378 reported rural primary school children infection rate human head lice erbil province still high one health problems children public schools