Clinical trials: Scrub Typhus
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
Scrub Typhus
The Clinical Epidemiology of Scrub Typhus in Humans, Chiggers and Rodents
This study to collect and identify rodents and mites across transects through diverse habitats used by the human community from a localised area identified as a scrub typhus 'hot spot'.
- Trial name
- NCT02876367
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
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
Scrub Typhus
Scrub Typhus Pediatric Immunology Study
This is an observational study of the natural immune response to scrub typhus in patients recruited from Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital, N-Thailand.
- Trial name
- NIRPS (NCT02398162)
- Testing
- Multi Blood Collections, Single Blood Collection
- Where
- Thailand
- Volunteers
- 170 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
Scrub Typhus
Clinical Effectiveness of Tigecycline for Scrub Typhus.
This multicenter, randomized, open-label clinical trial evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of intravenous tigecycline compared with oral doxycycline in adults hospitalized with scrub typhus.
- Trial name
- NCT07513103
- Testing
- doxycycline, Tigecycline (Tygacil)
- Where
- 3 sites in South Korea
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jin Soo Lee