648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveil...

MITCHELL GOLDMAN, GRETCHEN A. CLOUD, MELINDA SMEDEMA, ANN LEMONTE, PATRICIA CONNOLLY, DAVID S. MCKINSEY, CAROL A. KAUFFMAN, BRUCE MOSKOVITZ, L. JOSEPH WHEAT,* AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES MYCOSES STUDY GROUP† School of Medicine and Histoplasmosis Reference Laboratory, Indiana University; and Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; University of ...

648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveil...

Corey J. Ketchem,* Syed J. Khundmiri,* Adam E. Gaweda, Rebecca Murray, Barbara J. Clark, Edward J. Weinman, and Eleanor D. Lederer Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Louisville, Kentucky; Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; Department of Biochemistry and Molecula...

James E. Blevins, Gregory J. Morton, Diana L. Williams, David W. Caldwell, Lloyd S. Bastian, Brent E. Wisse, Michael W. Schwartz, and Denis G. Baskin Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Office of Research and Development Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Seattle; Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition, Uni...

Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Departments of Internal Medicine and Learning Health Science...

648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveil...

Army medical professionals must maintain the high level of proficiency required to fulfill the Army's medical missions of supporting military operations and providing beneficiary care. Because beneficiary care demands in a U.S. medical treatment facility (MTF) do not mirror those in a combat setting and sometimes can exceed the MTF's capacity, some MTFs enter into agreements with local civilian...

648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveil...

JACQUES A. DURR,1,2 JOHANNES HENSEN,3 TOBIAS EHNIS,4 AND MARY S. BLANKENSHIP5 (With the Technical Assistance of C. Klein) 1Division of Nephrology, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bay Pines 33744; 2Department of Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa 33612; 3Klinikum Hannover Nordstadt, Medizinische Klinik, Hannover 30167; 4Department of Medicine IV, Univ...