Chapter 316 One Germ, Three Forms (Red Comet Maswan Reward 3)

Hearing the quarrel among the apprentices in the examination room, Grete first... breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness the pathogen was a bacterium – not a virus. If it's a virus, it's over. The diameter of the virus is smaller than the wavelength of visible light, so the visible light waves will "bypass" the virus and cannot be seen under an optical microscope. To identify viruses, you need an electron microscope...

If you want to make an electron microscope, you need to figure out a lot of prerequisite technologies such as atoms, electrons, and wave-particle duality, but it is impossible to do it now!

Thanks to bacteria, luckily to bacteria. After Gretel breathed a sigh of relief, he closed the door behind him and glanced into the examination room:

"What are you arguing about?"

He was completely wrapped in a protective suit, and it was hard to tell what his face was like. However, just this question caused four people in the examination room to mute their voices at the same time. Gretel even saw two people shrinking their necks, as if silent - am I so scary?

If he wasn't pressed for time, he would really want to complain about this. However, there were hundreds of patients waiting outside, and Gretel could only move forward and look at the petri dishes in front of everyone:

"What did you make?"

Alas, this protective suit was pitch black, and their faces were covered so tightly that it was impossible to tell who was who. Next time, they should be asked to write their names on the protective clothing, or put a name tag on them - Gretel walked towards the microscope closest to him, and the apprentice next to him immediately stepped aside and complained:

"Sir, you see, what I made was one by one, and he used the things I extracted to make it, and what he made was long strips! I said he did it wrong, but he still doesn't believe it!"

One by one, one long strip and one long strip? Gretel's brain was spinning rapidly, searching for various possibilities. "What did you do?"

"Smear!" the apprentice replied confidently. Grete heard it this time. The person in charge of doing the smears was a Necromancer apprentice. He was careful and steady, and he was one of the first eight people to pass the bacterial culture test. This time he was sent to work in the laboratory:

"What I did was patient fecal smears and environmental sampling smears! This kind of bacteria was seen in both smears, and the amount was extremely large! I asked him to take it for culture, and what he produced was different from mine. , it must have made miscellaneous bacteria!”

"...Let me take a look." Gretel was noncommittal and leaned over the microscope to take a look. He stretched out his hand and slowly turned the knob, and the image under the lens enlarged little by little. The image of bacteria appeared in the lens. Grete only took one glance, and his heart was pounding. He couldn't help but lean down and get closer to the lens:

The bacteria in the lens were much larger than he expected!

Grete closed his eyes slightly and quickly flipped through "Medical Microbiology" in his mind, constantly searching for:

Escherichia coli, size is (0.4~0.7)*(1~3) microns;

Shigella dysenteriae, (0.5~0.7)*(2~3) microns;

Salmonella that causes typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever, (0.6~1.0)*(2~4) microns;

Vibrio cholerae, (0.5~0.8)*(1.5~3) micron;

Bacillus anthracis, (1~3)*(5~10) microns! ! !

Both length and width are much larger than other pathogenic bacteria! It is the first pathogenic bacterium discovered in human history, and it is also the largest gram-positive bacilli among pathogenic bacteria. This was emphasized by the teacher in class in the previous life!

Gretel's breath hitched. If you look closely, you will see that in the smear under the microscope, there are short rods with some oval shapes in between. Grete looked at several smears and found this particularly large bacterium, which was exactly the same as the Bacillus anthracis he had extracted before.

Because the product was too dangerous, Grete did not take out the germs for the apprentices to cultivate. He only briefly talked about the characteristics and showed them the picture album. Anyway, he was studying "Medical Microbiology" that year. Not every bacteria has been seen, and most of them are memorized like this.

Maybe that's why the two apprentices are arguing with each other here before they can react?

Gretel suppressed his pounding heart. He nodded to the Necromancer Apprentice and then turned to the other side:

"I'll also take a look at what you made."

"Sir, here." The other apprentice also made way. The girl with a clear female voice and a figure that is considered tall among women is the girl who brought a few wild boars. Thanks to the recent intensive training and perhaps the development of biogas, she has been promoted to an official priest. Because she mastered the microbial growth technique, Grete also arranged for her to be in the laboratory, specifically responsible for bacterial culture.

Gretel looked carefully at the microscope in front of her. Before the knob was turned in place, her fingers stopped:

Under the microscope, a large group of bacteria are connected head to tail, arranged in long chains, shaped like bamboo knots.

When fresh specimens are directly smeared, they are often single or in the form of short chains; after culture, they form long chains arranged like bamboos... In "Medical Microbiology", lines of text jump into my mind like thunder and lightning.

[Bamboo Pattern] These three words are specially bolded in the textbook, and there are even pictures!

Grete felt like his breath was getting choked. The results of bacterial microscopy, the symptoms of patients outside, and the answer obtained by combining the two...

Intestinal anthrax.

It is extremely rare, with an incidence rate of only 5% of the total cases of this Category B epidemic, but it is extremely dangerous. It is easy to be complicated by sepsis, and death occurs 2 to 3 days after the onset of the disease. Without treatment, the mortality rate is between 25% and 70%...

Is this really a disease?

——Wait a minute, we need to verify it, we need to verify it one last time!

Gretel turned to the apprentices in the laboratory::

"Do the culture test again. This time, add penicillin to the plate culture medium - the content of penicillin is 0.05~0.5 units per milliliter of culture medium. Now, immediately, do it again!"

A necromancer, a magician from the school of transformation, and two priests of the God of Nature, responded at the same time, and started to make arrangements quickly.

Grete had previously taught them how to calculate the penicillin content. The amount of penicillin that can inhibit the reproduction of Staphylococcus aureus in every 50 ml of broth is one unit. Add an appropriate amount of penicillin to the agar to make a plate culture medium, add the bacteria sample, and throw the spawn spell on it——

"It's different again! Sir, what we did this time is different again!"

"Show me!" Gretel stepped in front of the microscope. Under the lens, there are no longer long bamboo-shaped chains, but large and uniform balls, arranged in a long string of beads!

Penicillin bead test, positive!

Direct smears are often single or short chains. After culture, they form long chains arranged like bamboos, which appear like beads on the culture medium containing trace amounts of penicillin - the same bacteria, three different forms, he said in "Medical Microbiology" Among the pathogenic bacteria learned in ", this is the only one that exhibits the above characteristics!

No more flukes.

In other words, God has given them the only luck, and they can no longer expect more.

Grete closed her eyes hard. He looked at the two apprentices doing the smear test:

"Where do the inspection materials and environmental inspection materials you do come from?"

Both apprentices bent over the record book at the same time. The one from the Necromancy School was very articulate and had already read out quickly:

"39 Gladstone Street, Room 101, Room 115, Room 213, tap water for culture!"

"Room 218, Room 305, Room 312, 25 Cameron Street, tap water for culture!"

"Room 105, Room 105, Basement 11, No. 37 Alama Street, faucet..."

It is indeed a water source. Three different buildings, eight different households, drinking water supplied from the taps, and pathogenic bacteria were detected at the same time - there is only one possibility, the water source is contaminated!

Grete felt more and more certain. He pointed to the two apprentices in the examination room, the one from the School of Change, and the tall girl from the Order of the God of Nature:

"None of you did anything wrong. This kind of bacteria will indeed take on different forms under different conditions. Go back and review my lecture notes again. - You two, put down your work immediately and come out with me! There is something more important. Things are for you to do!

For the other two, please do it slowly and keep the number of casts today. A batch of important inspection materials will come over later. You read my note and give priority to inspection! "

"yes!"

"yes!"

Grete took the people away in a hurry. However, no matter how anxious he was, he still had to abide by the laboratory rules: shower with disinfectant water, take off protective clothing, take a second shower, put on the same clothes when you came in, wear a hat, mask and gloves. After completing a set of procedures, I returned to the outside room. The hospital was already so busy that it was almost on fire:

"Patient No. 57 on the first floor is dying! Pastor! Pastor!"

"Patient No. 113 on the first floor is in a coma!"

"Two more people escaped from the quarantine area! Do you want to catch them?"

"Let me out! Let me out! - I'll be fired if I don't go to the union!"

"Mom, mom - help -"

"The third floor is also full! Where are the patients sent?"

Gretel walked quickly through the passage. Along the way, in almost every ward, there was a white light of healing power flashing. Walking to the hall, Archmage Tolga sat among a group of low-level medical magicians, all of them looked tired and covered in sweat. Master Tolga took out the fruits from the space bag and was throwing them to them one by one.

Grete hurried over:

"Don't eat here! You must wash your hands before eating! Wash your hands thoroughly! Change your clothes! Soak all your clothes in disinfectant. If possible, burn them! Your clothes and hands are contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. Eat without cleaning them. Things can also get the plague!"

Damn it! The popularization of science about infectious diseases and aseptic procedures must be carried out as soon as possible, otherwise, before the people are cured, there will be a wave of hospital infection, which is a big joke!

"Did you hear that?" Master Tolga quickly shouted to his disciples. At the same time, several priests also walked out of the ward upstairs, their faces equally exhausted and their bodies covered in sweat. Bishop Sullivan of the Ares Temple even slipped on the stairs, barely holding on to the handrail, and walked quickly towards Grete:

"The healing power is not enough! I've called everyone who can, but it's still not enough! - Little Grete, what else can you do?"

"...Give me some time." Grete breathed tiredly: "Your Excellency, Archmage, Bishop, please take them with you and try to save spells as long as the patient does not die. Give me time! Fight for me time!"

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3000 words!

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I forgot to mention it at noon. Thank you everyone for collecting another 10,000 yuan reward. I will continue to add more tomorrow...

I dropped a lot of soil on my Cao Yulu once and poured it back. Today I found that the bottom leaf was shriveled... Should I water it today or should I wait a few days for the soil I bought to arrive and move the pot to water it together? ?