In 2015, Steffanie Strathdee, distinguished professor of medicine and associate dean of global health sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), was confronted with an antimicrobial-resistant infection the likes of which she had never come across. The patient involved was a man who had developed pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas, but further investigation revealed this was just the tip of the iceberg. A CT scan revealed a large pseudocyst—a sac inside the man’s abdomen—that had likely been there for months. The pseudocyst had offered a perfect environment to harbor bacteria, and it had become home to a particularly nasty bug: a multidrug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii,
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