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100 1  Strathdee, Steffanie A.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The perfect predator :|ba scientist's race to save her 
       husband from a deadly superbug /|cSteffanie Strathdee, PHD
       and Thomas Patterson, PHD ; with Teresa Barker 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHachette Books,|c2019 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    viii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|bcolor 
       illustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 319 - 328) and 
       index 
520    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 
600 10 Strathdee, Steffanie A. 
600 10 Patterson, Thomas L. 
650  0 Drug resistance in microorganisms. 
650  0 Multidrug resistance. 
650  0 Methicillin resistance. 
650  0 Antibiotics. 
650  0 Bacterial diseases. 
650  0 Bacteriophages. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Patterson, Thomas L.,|eauthor. 
700 1  Barker, Teresa,|eauthor.