Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$50,000.00

Award Date

9/11/2009

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

Each year, 9 million people are newly infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) and approximately 2 million die from MTb worldwide. MTb is particularly devastating in children, where dissemination and meningitis occur much more readily than in adul