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It’s a privilege to share the story of Tom Patterson, PhD, and his wife, Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, both faculty members at UC San Diego School of Medicine. In November 2015, they were vacationing in Egypt when Patterson contracted a life-threatening, multidrug-resistant bacterial infection. He was transported to UC San Diego Health, where he was treated intravenously with an experimental cocktail of phages — viruses that specifically destroy bacteria. He began improving almost immediately, emerging from a months-long coma. While this is only one patient (“N Equals One”!), Patterson’s experience opens a fresh avenue of research aimed at finding alternatives to traditional antibiotics, amidst the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance. Born digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) [Title, Date]. N Equals One. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL] Episode 16
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English
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Bacteriophage Antibiotics Podcast Bacteria Phage therapy University of California, San Diego
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