Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Amount

$213,438.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Oral thrush (pseudomembranous candidiasis) continues to afflict an unacceptably high percentage of immunocompromised individuals, particularly children. Because the recalcitrant nature of this oral infection, triggered primarily by C. albicans, could be a