Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$412,500.00

Award Date

7/21/2009

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

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes endemic and large epidemics of acute human hepatitis and sporadic cases by a fecal-oral transmission in many parts of the world. HEV generally infects young adults and the disease has a high mortality rate, up to 20%, in in