Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Amount

$410,720.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

Vibrio species are predominantly aquatic bacteria. While many of them are nonpathogenic, some vibrios are associated with severe disease in humans. Vibrio cholerae, in particular, has a long history of causing epidemic and pandemic cholera. Cholera result