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The Perfect Predator
- A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
- Lu par : Christine Lakin, Dan Woren
- Durée : 11 h et 31 min
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Description
An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life - and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.
"A memoir that reads like a thriller." (New York Times Book Review)
"A fascinating and terrifying peek into the devastating outcomes of antibiotic misuse - and what happens when standard health care falls short." (Scientific American)
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, a.k.a. "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.
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"...A memoir that reads like a thriller." (New York Times Book Review)
"A fascinating and terrifying peek into the devastating outcomes of antibiotic misuse - and what happens when standard health care falls short." (Scientific American)
"At once terrifying and inspiring, The Perfect Predator is a brilliant race-against-the-clock medical thriller that is also a celebration of love, commitment, and the power of scientific collaboration." (Steven Johnson, New York Times best-selling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and The Ghost Map)
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 07/03/2019
Reads like a Facebook post....
Incredible story, but the writing leaves something to be desired, namely it needs some editing. Well...actually...it needs a lot of editing. I managed to make it through the book because of the story, not the writing which goes into way too many mundane everyday details. The author's premise seems to be that farmers are making "super bugs" because of what they feed their chickens and pigs, while at the same time saying that her husband picked up his nasty Gram-negative, multi antibiotic resistant bacterial infection most likely as the result of a poorly sterilized medical probe in a small rural medical clinic in Egypt...a clinic which lacked working electrical outlets or even a bedpan that didn't leak. There may be a connection, but the author did not present it well enough for me to pick it up from my reading of this book. Though not related to the story, I must admit, her sideways smirk at the religious customs and beliefs of the Muslim nurses and doctors in the clinic made me squirm a bit as well.
The author, a Phd, goes on to admit she regularly seeks the advice of a Psychic, and then has her New Age "wholistic" doctor mumble some sort of blessing over the drugs that eventually save her husband's life. Hardly what I would consider top notch science and it decreases the scientific creditability of the author in my opinion. Do you believe in science or mumbo jumbo? That's the question I kept asking myself as I listened to these parts of the book.
Her husband's vivid descriptions of what he saw during his morphine induced delusions, presented as a series of "interludes" add nothing to the story, in my opinion. Sure, I went on some "spirit journeys" myself while I was on morphine after brain surgery. I saw some pretty scary and weird stuff...many people do under these circumstances...but describing what I saw to others is like forcing somebody to sit through a complete stranger's vacation pictures...and that's what I felt like during Tom's "interludes" in this book.
This could have been a heck of a hair raising and fast paced story, but it get's mired in the mud of too many details that are not important to the story. It ends up reading like a Facebook posting from a middle aged lady whose husband is on life support, comes close to death multiple times, and finally triumphs. And that's a shame for a couple reasons. First, it's a waste of a great true life story that could have been written in a much more compelling way. Second, we really do need to be worrying about the rising incidence of multi-antibiotic resistance bacteria and learning about the novel approaches to combating the threat they pose. This book, if it had been better written, could have been a platform for increasing public awareness of this issue, but sadly it falls short.
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- Justine
- 30/08/2019
One of my new favorite books!
As a microbiologist, I loved this book. As a human, I loved this book. I’m telling you, I didn’t want to stop reading it (which is rare for me). You really feel like you are on the journey with Steffanie and Tom. Also, the actors for this audiobook were perfectly cast. I highly recommend you listen because you will learn a ton, laugh, cry, and feel inspired.
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- huganarmymom
- 31/12/2019
I loved this book
As medical professional, this book fascinated me and kept me on my toes. I appreciated the medical jargon and attention to details.
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- Anne O
- 06/05/2019
Bio-thriller!
Bio-thriller! Brilliant, female voice excellent. Passion for science, devotion to her husband, and the race against time. true scientific cooperation saved him.
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- C. Tucker
- 16/11/2019
Wow
This story reads like a novel. I can’t believe I hadn’t run across it before because it’s right up my alley. One of the best books I’ve read this year!!!
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- IowaGreyhound
- 27/10/2019
Exciting fight against a superbug
I binge listened to this book over a couple days. it is a book you can't put down. As a bacteriologist I am well aware of antimicrobial resistance and its challenges. I see a lot of hurdles to make bacteriophage therapy available to everyone, but it holds a lot of promise and is a source of hope for those battling a superbug infection.
The narrators were phenomenal. The writing was simplified for the non scientist, but provided plenty of scientific information for them to understand the situation.
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- Jeri
- 23/09/2019
A Harrowing Story With A Near Miraculous Ending Thanks To Phage Therapy
I really am invested in stories about infectious diseases, in part, because I worked in an Infectious Disease Bureau of a state Department of Health. The fact that the subjects and authors of this book worked in HIV/AIDS also mirrors my experience. This book tells the story of an infection with a multi-drug resistant bacteria. It begins in Egypt, continues in Germany and eventually ends up in San Diego. It chronicles the frantic attempts to clear the infected patient of his infection and the determination of his wife, the author of much of the book, who reads about treatment of multi-drug resistant bacteria with bacteriophages, viruses that attract specific bacteria and evolve quickly to combat the evolution of the bacteria’s defenses. Finding just the right bacteriophage isn’t easy, nor is it pleasant, (read to find out why), but the right cocktail of these super predators can bring someone back from death’s door. This is a book that should be listened to/ read by anyone who is concerned about drug resistance and the future that may be brighter thanks to phage therapy.
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- Logan Voegtly
- 09/04/2019
Pushing Science Forward!
A must read, especially for those in the medical field. This is an amazing story of one woman who assembled a team of brave doctors and researchers to push forward the boundaries of science to fight a superbug and save her husband. This book is more than just her story, it details a momentous moment in history, where phage therapy is approved by the FDA in America. This is paving the way for phage therapy to become a viable addition to the arsenal in the war against antibiotic resistant bacteria.
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- Shannon Reeves
- 04/07/2019
Thank you for writing this book!
I wish everyone could read this book and wake up to what we are all doing that endangers our lives. Thank goodness they never gave up. Read it and stop with unnecessary antibiotics in foods and meds!
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 07/06/2020
A trailblazer!
A gripping, nerve-wracking yet hopeful account of one woman's perseverance to keep her husband alive. The medical miracle achieved through scientific collaboration spanning across many countries in getting a downcasted therapy of using phage to combat antibiotic resistant bacterial infection is quite impressive. It shines light upon the jarring loop holes in the western medical practices and the privilege of having the means to obtain unconventional treatment when others in much more desolate state would not be able to get.
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