Primary Recipient

ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL

Amount

$102,208.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The pneumococcus is able to colonize and replicate in a number of sites in the human host including the nasopharynx (colonization), lungs (pneumoniae), blood (sepsis, and the