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The Perfect Predator Chosen by Stanford as a Top Summer Read

Summer reading: Inspiring curiosity and critical thinking about sustainability
Faculty and scholars associated with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability recommend these 26 books for your summer reading.

The Perfect Predator Semi-Finalist for JOURNEY Book Awards

The Semi-Finalists Announcement for the JOURNEY Book Awards for Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir – a division of the 2019 CIBAs-
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true

The Perfect Predator Semi-Finalist in Goodreads 2019 Choice Awards

Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Science & Technology!
Official winner of this year’s Goodreads Choice Award for Science & Technology, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is also the unofficial winner of this year’s Most Alarming Book Title award. Author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers all those questions that we’re generally afraid to ask about death, decay, decomposition, and other depressing developments.

New York Times Book Review https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/books/review/prescribed-reading-antibiotics-abigail-zuger.html?fbclid=IwAR17-Im24sqUWnJV1HnZO4Cg16Yi6pcWB7TVYh1yTold-gvCJsG0nYEtJT0

“A riveting, pulse-pounding medical thriller that just happens to be true. Strathdee is expert at weaving science into compulsively readable prose.“

Tess Gerritsen, NYT-bestselling Author of The Shape of Night

The Perfect Predator voted as one of the best non-fiction books (Science) of 2019 by Amazon editors. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

The Perfect Predator is a Goodreads 2019 Semifinalist (Science and Technology)

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The Perfect Predator chosen as one of the best books to read this summer in health and science by STAT news

The 23 best health and science books to read this summer
he first day of summer has arrived, and so has STAT’s annual book list of great reads in health, science, and medicine. Read on for recommendations from CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and CDC Director Robert Redfield. Plus, STAT readers from Boston to Ireland to Australia share their picks, in addition to our staff.

The Perfect Predator chosen as one of the seven books to read this summer “The Agenda in the Summer” host Nam Kiwanuka

Seven books you should read in summer 2019 | TVO.org
To prepare for The Agenda in the Summer, I had to do the best kind of homework: read more than 25 books. I had the opportunity to speak with, among others, award-winning authors Barry Callaghan and Marlon James; Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead; and Tim Hague, an Amazing Race Canada winner who wrote a book about being diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s disease at 46.

“A remarkable story of love, resilience, the science of discovery, and quite possibly, the future of medicine.“

— Richard Horton, The Lancet

“[A] riveting tale…The saga reads like a thriller….Remarkable passages from Patterson [describe] how he interpreted events through veils of feverish delirium, pain-killer fog, and coma.”
— Laurie Garrett, The Lancet

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THE PERFECT PREDATOR | Kirkus Reviews
A real-life medical thriller that proves when science, medicine, and perseverance align, “the impossible becomes possible.” In 2015, infectious disease epidemiologist Strathdee (Global Health Sciences/Univ. of California, San Diego School of Medicine) and her husband, Patterson, a psychologist, were on vacation in Egypt when he was infected with one of the deadliest antibiotic-resistant superbugs on the planet.

Read the Publishers Weekly Review (starred review)

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug by Steffanie Strathdee, Thomas Patterson
Epidemiologist Strathdee and psychiatrist Patterson are vacationing in Egypt in 2015 at the onset of this gripping and intriguing medical thriller. After crawling into a pyramid, Patterson falls violently ill. Strathdee, his wife, initially attributes his sickness to food poisoning, but doctors in an Egyptian clinic soon diagnose acute pancreatitis, later found to be complicated by a football-sized pseudocyst infected with an antibiotic-resistant superbug.

Read Anne M. Estes Review on Mostly Microbes

Book Review: The Perfect Predator is a Phage Turner – Mostly Microbes
The Perfect Predator – A gripping memoir detailing how a brilliant scientist saves her husband from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and in turn, gives modern medicine hope. Pathogens, “Superbug”, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections, post-antibiotic era – any of these terms are scary. They’re even scarier when you or someone you love are ill.

Read the CAPSID Review by Jessica Sacher, PhD

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The Perfect Predator
A compelling medical mystery turned thriller race against time and death-this memoir is even more than that. It’s an emotional journey with the author as she tells of her frantic efforts to save her husband’s life by finding the “perfect predator” capable of knocking out “the worst bacteria on the planet.”

Read the Winnipeg Free Press Review by Bill Rambo

Apr 2019: Epidemiologist’s race to thwart deadly bacteria a real-life thriller
Hey there, time traveller! This article was published 27/4/2019 (1157 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. A race against time to thwart a deadly foe, which threatens a loved one and may spread devastation. Courageous characters altruistically joining forces to defeat an international menace.

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

Read the Nature Research Microbiology Review by Madhukar Pai

The Art of Killing a Superbug
I remember drawing the image of a bacteriophage when I was in high school. It is probably one of the few microorganisms that anyone can draw using a pencil and a ruler! I was amazed to learn that they were actually viruses that preyed on bacteria!

Read the San Diego Tribune Review by Denise Davidson

UCSD professor and scientist threw ‘Hail Mary pass’ to defeat husband’s superbug
While vacationing in Egypt during the winter of 2015, an almost fatal event occurred to local resident and UC San Diego professor Thomas Patterson. “Tom’s symptoms resembled food poisoning at first, but he just kept getting sicker,” said Steffanie Strathdee, his wife and an associate dean of global health and infectious disease epidemiologist at UC San Diego.