The perfect predator : a scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug : a memoir
Strathdee, Steffanie A., 1966-2020
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Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were 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. 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. 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 centre - and together they resurrected a forgotten cure.
Main title:
The perfect predator : a scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug : a memoir / Steffanie Strathdee, Teresa Barker, Thomas Patterson.
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Imprint:
London : Hachette Books, 2020.
Collation:
352 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780316418119 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2254520
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olney Library | Adult non-fiction | 616.9041 STR | Available |