Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NJ (INC)

Amount

$429,000.00

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

Aggregatibater (Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans is the etiologic agent of localized aggressive periodontitis and other systemic infections including infective endocarditis. A. actinomycetemcomitans produces an RTX toxin, leukotoxin (LtxA), specific