Study overview
Overview
- Study title
- Incidence of Scrub Typhus in Rural South India
- Participants enrolled
- 32,279
- Lead institute
- Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Wolf-Peter Schmidt (LSHTM)
- Principal investigator profile
- Open profile
- Study design
- Longitudinal/Prospective
- Location
- Tamil Nadu
- Single / multiple sites
- Single Site
- Key highlights
- This is a population-based cohort study conducted in a highly endemic region to estimate both the clinical incidence of scrub typhus and the rate of asymptomatic Orientia tsutsugamushi infection.
- Reference paper 1
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40073309/
Insights & criteria
Insights
- Socio‑demographic / economic
- Rural Setting
- Recruitment and timeline
- 2020
- Follow‑up
- Every 6-8 weeks
Follow-up (2020-2022) - Keywords
- Infectious Disease, Epidemiology
Details
Details
- Age group
- All Ages
- Gender
- Men & Women
- Scope
- National
- Category
- Disease-Specific Cohort