Details below on the latest submission to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 8, 2018 from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (reviews and protocols published 1 - 31 August).Two new reviews

In one-fifth of people with active tuberculosis (TB), the site of disease is outside the lungs (extrapulmonary TB). Some forms of extrapulmonary TB, such as TB meningitis, are extremely dangerous, where a rapid diagnosis can make all the difference to a patient.

LSTM’s department of Clinical Sciences has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Research Associate to join the team working as part of the “Research, Evidence and Development Initiative” (READ-It).

The CIDG aims to impact on policy and research in tropical diseases through the production of high quality, relevant, systematic reviews, and to lead developments in review quality improvement and effective dissemination of findings. Our reviews have impacted on guidance in malaria, HIV care delivery, TB diagnostic tests, typhoid vaccines, Crimea-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, and health systems, and have led the methodological advances in qualitative syntheses used in guidance development.

Details below on the latest submission to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 7, 2018 from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (reviews and protocols published 1 - 31 July).Three new protocols

Professor Paul Garner and Dr Rachael Milligan from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group joined

Monica Shah is a malaria epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She began her career in malaria as a laboratory scientist at CDC, using molecular skills from her background in biochemistry to detect genetic markers of antimalarial drug resistance for surveillance efforts and research studies in sub-saharan Africa

Dr Cara MacfarlaneResearch Assistant

Joe PryceResearch Assistant