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Health

Super Battle with a Superbug

The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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Steffanie Strathdee is a successful infectious disease epidemiologist and her husband Thomas Patterson is an evolutionary sociobiologist and experimental psychologist. But their expertise was no match for an antibiotic-resistant superbug that plagued Patterson and his health. They talk to Nam Kiwanuka about his treatment and recovery, the topic of their book, "The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug."

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The Agenda in the Summer: A Predatory Superbug

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Jul 25, 2019

Excerpt: Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson’s ‘The Perfect Predator’

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