Primary Recipient

MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, INC., THE

Amount

$385,000.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Cholera is an acute water-borne diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae of serogroups O1 and O139. The bacterium is transmitted person-to-person by the fecal oral route. Infecting Vibrios that overcome the gastric acid barrier swim toward and adhere t