Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM

Amount

$394,646.00

Award Date

6/17/2009

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

Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular gram-negative bacterium that causes the worldwide zoonotic disease, Q fever. Natural human infections commonly occur via inhalation of infectious aerosols, manifest clinically as atypical pneumonia, and can d