Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$97,684.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

Coxiella burnetii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterium that is the causative agent of Q-fever in humans and is further classified as a Class B select agent. After uptake by a host cell, C. burnetii subverts specific host cell processes and