1 Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 2 Infection Control Department, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 3 Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, 10000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserv...

From the Medical Service, Infectious Disease Section, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine — both in Houston (D.M.M.); and the Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia (B.L.M.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Daniel Musher at the Infectio...

Boston University School of Medicine (S.B.), Boston, Massachusetts 02118; Baylor College of Medicine/Veterans Affairs Medical Center (G.R.C.), Houston, Texas 77030; Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (F.J.H.), Boston, Massachusetts 02114; University of Washington/Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System (A.M.M.), Seattle, Washington 98108; University of Pennsylvania Sc...

1 Metabolism Section, Medical Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121; and 2 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143; and 3 Dermatology Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121; and 4 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of California, San...

1 Human Performance Research Unit, Muscle Morphology, Mechanics and Performance Laboratory, Clinical Research Center, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA, 2 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA, 3 Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George...

From the *Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; †Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Health Care System, Boston, Massachusetts; ‡Hines VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines, Illinois; §Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare Syste...

received: november 2005 accepted: feburary 2006 corresponding author: dr aeen mohammadi, is a researcher in , the secretariat for education and student affairs of ministry of health and medical education,tehran, iran . 13 th floor, secretariat for education and student affairs, ministry of health and medical education, simaye iran st., falamak jonoobi ave, shahrake ghods, tehran email: aeenmoha...

Fahim Abbasi, Sang-Ah Chang, James W. Chu, Theodore P. Ciaraldi, Cindy Lamendola, Tracey McLaughlin, Gerald M. Reaven, and Peter D. Reaven Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Medical Research Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Califo...