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Email if you can help!\u201d The message was retweeted nearly 400 times.<\/p>\n<p>To the average social-media user, the tweet might as well have been written in another language, but to those who know Strathdee, it was a rallying cry. Strathdee is the associate dean of global health science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and she\u2019s part of a small but growing community of scientists advocating for an experimental treatment for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4952014\/antibiotic-resistance-amr-united-nations\/\">superbug infections<\/a>. 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