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The Perfect Predator - A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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The Perfect Predator - A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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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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