Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA

Amount

$355,059.00

Award Date

4/12/2010

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

THE ON-GOING GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO STUDY THE ROLE THAT TRANSPORT PLAYS IN THE BIOLOGY OF THE OBLIGATE INTRACYTOPLASMIC PATHOGEN, RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII AND DEFINE HOW THIS IMPACTS INTERACTIONS WITH THE EUKARYOTIC HOST CELL. THE FOCUS OF THIS PROJECT