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

Strathdee, Steffanie; Barker, Teresa; Patterson, Thomas

 
9780316418119: The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Steffanie Strathdee is an infectious disease epidemiologist, and Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and Professor and Harold Simon Chair at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. She also directs the new UC San Diego center for Innovative Phage Application and Therapeutics and is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins and Simon Fraser Universities. She has been named one of TIME's 50 Most Influential People in Health Care.

Thomas Patterson is an evolutionary sociobiologist and an experimental psychologist. A Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, he has renowned expertise on behavioral interventions among HIV-positive persons and those at high risk of acquiring HIV and sexually transmitted infections.

Dr. Patterson and Dr. Strathdee have worked as husband-and-wife AIDS researchers on the Mexico-US border for over a decade. This is their first book togeth

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9780316418089: The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

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ISBN 10:  0316418080 ISBN 13:  9780316418089
Publisher: Hachette Books, 2019
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