Primary Recipient

THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$54,000.00

Award Date

1/18/2010

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

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common and costly disease that tends to recur in women despite current antibiotic therapies. Recent studies in a mouse model of UTI suggest that some recurrent UTIs are due to an intracellular reservoir of uropathogenic