Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON

Amount

$68,454.00

Award Date

12/02/2011

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

Rickettsial diseases have been a scourge of humankind throughout history. Typhus epidemics due to louse- borne Rickettsia (R.) prowazekii have caused more deaths than all the wars combined and recent epidemiological evidence documents the reemergence of e