Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$384,043.00

Award Date

4/29/2009

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

The ability of the bacterium Streptococcus mutans to take up DNA from its local environment is known as genetic competence, and it is an important component of the virulence of this organism. Existing data indicates that in the natural biofilm environmen