Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO

Amount

$397,375.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

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

Candidiasis now represents the third most frequent nonsocomial infection in hospitals both in the US and worldwide, and C. albicans remains the most frequent causative agent of cadidiasis. Unfortunately these infections carry unacceptably high mortality