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<p> A California hospital continues a high-stakes tuberculosis follow-up of more than 350 newborns exposed to an infected healthcare worker. With testing reliability questionable in such infants, the babies are essentially being treated empirically with isoniazid for a TB strain that is susceptible to the first line drug.</p>

Patients alarmed after newborns exposed to TB

One HCW exposes a thousand patients, co-workers