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'My husband squeezed my hand to say he wanted to live, then I found a way to save him'

Natasha Lipman
BBC World Service
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Tom and Steffanie, with illustrations of Acinetobacter and a bacteria-eating phage
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When Tom Patterson started vomiting during an Egyptian holiday he thought he had food poisoning. He was wrong. In fact he was infected with an antibiotic-resistant superbug and only his wife's determination and a revolutionary new treatment would save him.

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