Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$98,944.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

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

Amerindians in Chile likely migrated from Asia thousands of years ago, and East Asian strains of H. pylori produce a more pathogenic CagA motif than European strains. A substantial portion of Amerindians live in isolated, relatively less hygienic rural c