Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$412,500.00

Award Date

8/11/2009

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

We propose to test the hypothesis that catabolic antibodies play an important innate defense role in protecting against Staphylococcus aureus infections. S. aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that colonizes the skin (primarily the anterior nasal vestibul