Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$400,855.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is major cause of respiratory infections including community acquired pneumonia, and the organism is an established cause of extrapulmonary complications such as encephalitis. At present three classes of drugs are used to treat M. p