Clinical trials: Rickettsiosis
Rickettsial Disease
Causes of Fever in Bangladeshi Patients
Background: The clinical features and prevalence of tropical rickettsial illnesses such as murine and scrub typhus in Bangladesh are unknown.
- Trial name
- NCT02339259
- Testing
- Observation
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 416 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Rickettsioses
Laboratory Diagnosis of of Rickettsial and Rickettsia-like Diseases
The low confirmed rickettsioses cases rate may indicate the presence of rickettsiosis other than scrub typhus, murine typhus, and Q fever.
- Trial name
- NCT01137175
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 4,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Scrub Typhus, Spotted Fever; India
The Epidemiology of Rickettsial Infections in South India: Cohort Study
There is enough evidence to suggest that scrub typhus and spotted fever group rickettsioses are common causes of febrile illness in India. Serological evidence also exists for murine typhus, but is rarely tested for.
- Conditions
- Scrub Typhus, Spotted Fever; India, Murine Typhus
- Trial name
- NCT04506944
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 32,566 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Infectious Disease, Therapeutics
Rickettsia Clearance Study
Murine typhus is a disease caused by Rickettisa typhi, an obligate intracellular bacterium transmitted by rodent fleas. The disease has a worldwide distribution; however the true burden is unknown, related to its non-specific…
- Trial name
- RiCS (NCT05972772)
- Testing
- Doxycyclin, Azithromycin
- Where
- 2 sites in Laos
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital Wellcome Trust Research Unit