The perfect predator : a scientist's race to save her husband from a deadly superbug
by Strathdee, Steffanie A. (Author), Patterson, Thomas L. (Author), Barker, Teresa (Author)
Summary
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-cla... Full description
- Part I : A deadly hitchhiker. Blindsided
- A menacing air
- The last supper
- Disease detectives
- First responders
- Lost in translation
- The colonel from Al-Shabaab
- Tom: interlude I
- A deadly hitchhiker
- The worst bacteria on the planet
- Tom: interlude II. Part II : Can't eskape.
- Homecoming
- Superbugged
- Public enemy number one: under the radar
- Tom: interlude III
- The alternate reality club
- Tipping point: fully colonized
- Tom: interlude IV. Part III : the perfect predator. The spider to catch the fly
- Tom: interlude V
- The perfect predator
- Semper fortis: always faithful, always strong
- A hail Mary pass
- Panning for gold
- Journeying
- Tom: interlude VI. Part IV : the Darwinian dance. The blood orange tree
- Moment of truth
- The bold guess
- Lysis to kill
- Tom: interlude VII
- Second-guessing
- No mud, no lotus
- tom: interlude VIII
- The Darwinian dance and the Red Queen's pursuit
- The last dance
- The Buddha's gift
- Grand rounds
- Epilogue.