Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$63,446.00

Award Date

9/29/2010

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

Staphylococcus aureus can elaborate a surface-associated B-1-6-linked polymer of N-acetyl-glucosamine (PNAG) that serves two significant virulence functions: 1. if functions as the major constituent of the biofilm exo-polymeric matrix and 2. it protects