Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$140,542.00

Award Date

9/07/2010

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

Haemophilus ducreyi is the etiologic agent of chancroid, a sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease. Very little is known about how this unencapsulated, Gram-negative bacterium evades host defenses and causes dermal lesion development. However, it has b