Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

Amount

$297,000.00

Award Date

8/16/2010

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

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), with various difficult-to-kill strains isolated clinically and from communities, caused 94,360 serious infections and 18,650 deaths in the United States in 2005. To tackle this problem, we propose to eng