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Defeating Bacteria With "The Perfect Predator"

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A bacteriophage, in an artist's depiction.

It started out looking like a simple case of food poisoning.  But it turned out to be an infection from a dangerous antibiotic resistant bacteria. 

Fortunately, the patient's husband is an epidemiologist, Steffanie Strathdee.  Her efforts to cure Thomas Patterson turned to a virus that could kill the bacteria, the title character in the book . 

Phage treatment was a more common approach before antibiotics.  The authors talk of their harrowing experience and their ultimate success. 
 

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