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• arcleinBut it was a bacterium, not a virus, that was bedeviling them now. Three months earlier, on the last night of a Thanksgiving vacation in Egypt, Patterson had suddenly fallen ill, so severely that he had to be medevaced to Germany and then to UCSD. There were several things wrong - a gallstone, an abscess in his pancreas - but the core of the problem was an infection with a superbug, a bacterium named Acinetobacter