Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$260,214.00

Award Date

8/31/2009

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

Mycoplasmosis is usually subtle, but Mycoplasma alligatoris causes acute lethal primary infection of susceptible hosts. The goal of this work is to explain the mechanisms and evolutionary origins of that virulence. A genome survey indicated that M. alliga