New antibiotic shows promise for scrub typhus fever
Disease control
Completed
This study tested whether the antibiotic tigecycline works better than the standard drug doxycycline for scrub typhus, a bacterial infection spread by mites. Thirty-one hospitalized patients were randomly assigned to receive either tigecycline or doxycycline. Researchers measured…
Sponsor: Jin Soo Lee • Aim: Disease control
Last updated Aug 13, 2026 00:00 UTC