Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$48,891.00

Award Date

8/02/2010

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

Each year, 9 million people are newly infected with Mycobacterium tuberculusis (mtb) and approximately 2 million die from Mtb worldwide. Mtb is particularly devastating in children, where dissemination and meningitis occur much more readily than in adult