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• Colonized or infected health care workers contribute to health care-associated infections. • Children are at highest risk for tuberculosis transmission from an infected HCW. • Institutional command centers can facilitate responses to high-consequence pathogens. Tuberculosis (TB) in the health care worker demands orchestrated efforts from health care institutions to promptly identify cases and address community risk. We describe a pediatric intensive care unit nurse with latent TB infection who developed hemoptysis and a lung infiltrate concerning for active TB. Her evaluation and contact investigation were facilitated by our institution's command center. Although TB was ultimately ruled out, this case tested our team-based care in response to a suspected high-consequence pathogen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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