Scientists One, Superbug Zero: Personal Quest Resurrects Phage Therapy in Infection Fight | NLM in Focus

Scientists One, Superbug Zero: Personal Quest Resurrects Phage Therapy in Infection Fight | NLM in Focus

Scientists One, Superbug Zero: Personal Quest Resurrects Phage Therapy in Infection Fight

03/26/2019 09:00 AM EDT

At one life-or-death moment, Dr. Tom Patterson was a snake. In November 2015, he and wife Dr. Steffanie Strathdee were merely two scientists on holiday. The couple had been vacationing on a cruise in Egypt. After a day of pyramid probing and an evening meal aboard ship, Patterson fell ill. Food poisoning, he surmised. A…