Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$599,048.00

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

Alarming numbers of pathogenic bacteria are now resistant to multiple antibiotics. This problem is perhaps most pressing for two common hospital-borne pathogens, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)