Primary Recipient

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Amount

$403,750.00

Award Date

5/07/2009

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

Francisella tularensis is a highly efficient zoonotic pathogen that is able to establish a virulent infection with 10 organisms or less. To accomplish this feat the bacterium must have devised efficient means of infecting its host, and effective ways of a