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The Perfect Predator - A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir (Paperback)
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The Perfect Predator - A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 900
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A "fascinating and terrifying" memoir of one woman's extraordinary
effort to save her husband's life (Scientific American) - and the
discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save
millions more. Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband,
psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came
down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food
poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been
transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center
at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work
revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of
the most dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the world.
Frantic, Steffanie combed through research old and new and came
across phage therapy: the idea that the right virus, aka "the
perfect predator," can kill even the most lethal bacteria. Phage
treatment had fallen out of favor almost 100 years ago, after
antibiotic use went mainstream. Now, with time running out,
Steffanie appealed to phage researchers all over the world for
help. She found allies at the FDA, researchers from Texas A&M,
and a clandestine Navy biomedical center - and together they
resurrected a forgotten cure. A nail-biting medical mystery, The
Perfect Predator is a story of love and survival against all odds,
and the (re)discovery of a powerful new weapon in the global
superbug crisis.
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