The perfect predator : a scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug / Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, Thomas Patterson, PhD, with Teresa Barker.
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-cla...
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New York, NY :
Hachette Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : A deadly hitchhiker. Blindsided
- A menacing air
- The last supper
- Disease detectives
- First responders
- Lost in translation
- The colonel from Al-Shabaab
- Tom: interlude I
- A deadly hitchhiker
- The worst bacteria on the planet
- Tom: interlude II. Part II : Can't eskape.
- Homecoming
- Superbugged
- Public enemy number one: under the radar
- Tom: interlude III
- The alternate reality club
- Tipping point: fully colonized
- Tom: interlude IV. Part III : the perfect predator. The spider to catch the fly
- Tom: interlude V
- The perfect predator
- Semper fortis: always faithful, always strong
- A hail Mary pass
- Panning for gold
- Journeying
- Tom: interlude VI. Part IV : the Darwinian dance. The blood orange tree
- Moment of truth
- The bold guess
- Lysis to kill
- Tom: interlude VII
- Second-guessing
- No mud, no lotus
- tom: interlude VIII
- The Darwinian dance and the Red Queen's pursuit
- The last dance
- The Buddha's gift
- Grand rounds
- Epilogue.