Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Amount

$367,558.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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

ROLE OF YAPS IN Y. PESTIS PATHOGENESIS Background and Aims Yersinia pestis (Yp) is a Gram-negative bacterial human pathogen that is the causative agent of bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic plague. No vaccine is currently available for either form of plagu