Interventions to improve latent and active tuberculosis treatment completion rates in underserved groups in low incidence countries: a scoping review.

Background: People in underserved groups have higher rates of tuberculosis (TB) and poorer treatment outcomes compared with people with no social risk factors.

Objectives: This scoping review aimed to identify interventions that improve TB treatment adherence or completion rates.

Eligibility Criteria: Studies of any design focusing on interventions to improve adherence or completion of TB treatment in underserved populations in low incidence countries.

Implementation of novel and conventional outbreak control measures in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison.

Background: Outbreak control measures during COVID-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison consisted of standard (e.g., self-isolation) and novel measures, including establishment of: (i) reverse cohorting units for accommodating new prison admissions; (ii) protective isolation unit for isolating symptomatic prisoners, and (iii) a shielding unit to protect medically vulnerable prisoners.

Cross border, highly individualised treatment of a patient with challenging extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Multiple outbreaks of Salmonella braenderup associated with consumption of iceberg lettuce.

The aim of this study was to describe the findings from an outbreak investigation following several apparently unrelated community outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Epidemiological, environmental, laboratory and traceback investigations were used to identify the source of the outbreak. We enrolled 23 (of 29) laboratory confirmed cases and 24 neighbourhood case-nominated controls in a case-control study which revealed that illness was associated with consumption of iceberg lettuce (matched odds ratio 8.