Primary Recipient

MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE

Amount

$71,132.00

Award Date

8/01/2009

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

Trypanosoma brucei is a group of hemoflagellated parasitic protozoa that causes a fatal disease in humans known as African sleeping sickness and a similar diseases in domestic animals called nagana. The disease is transmitted by an insect vector, the tset