Primary Recipient

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE

Amount

$217,929.00

Award Date

9/21/2009

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

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported arthropod-borne disease in the United States and the number of reported cases has doubled to over 20,000 per year during the past decade. Lyme disease is caused by the bite of a tick infected with the spirochete,