Primary Recipient

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Amount

$108,495.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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

Rickettsia felis is recognized as an emerging flea-borne rickettsial agent. Within the Specific Aims of the parent grant we have discovered a very interesting association between microbiota of fleas and their potential to transmit Rickettsia felis. Additi