Chapter 311: One Germ, Three Forms (Red Comet Maswan Reward 3)
Hearing the quarrel among the apprentices in the examination room, Gretel... first breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank God, the pathogen is a bacterium - not a virus. If it were a virus, it would be 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 the virus, you need an electron microscope...
…
If you want to make an electron microscope, you need to figure out a lot of pre-technologies, such as atoms, electrons, and wave-particle duality, but it is impossible to do it now!
Thanks to bacteria, fortunately to bacteria. After Gretel breathed a sigh of relief, he closed the door behind him and swept into the examination room:
"What are you arguing about?"
He was completely wrapped in a protective suit, and you couldn't tell what his face was like. However, just by asking, four people in the examination room stopped talking at the same time. Gretel even saw two people shrinking their necks, as if they were silent - I
Is it so scary?
If it weren't for time, he really wanted 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 is pitch black, and the faces are covered so tightly that it is impossible to tell who is who. Next time, they should let them write their names on the protective suit, or put a name tag on it - Grete walked away from him
The apprentice next to the nearest microscope 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 didn't believe it!"
One by one, one long strip after another? Gretel's mind was spinning rapidly, searching for various possibilities. "What did you do?"
"Smear!" the apprentice replied confidently. Grete recognized it this time. The person in charge of doing the smear was a Necromancer apprentice. He was careful and steady. He was one of the first eight people to pass the bacterial culture test. This
He was assigned to work in the laboratory for the first time:
"What I did was patient fecal smears and environmental sampling smears! This 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 bacteria!"
"...I'll take a look." Gretel was noncommittal and moved closer to 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, and Gretel only glanced at it.
, my heart was pounding, and I couldn’t help but lean down and get closer to the camera:
The bacteria in the lens were much larger than he expected!
Gretel 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) micron;
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 in terms of length and width, it is much larger than other pathogenic bacteria! It is the first pathogenic bacteria discovered in human history, and it is also the largest gram-positive bacilli among pathogenic bacteria. I learned this in my previous life
At that time, the teacher once emphasized it!
Gretel's breath tightened. He looked carefully and saw that in the smear under the microscope, there were short rods with some oval shapes in between. Gretel could find these even after looking at several smears.
A particularly large bacterium, exactly the same as the Bacillus anthracis he extracted before.
Because the product was too dangerous, Gretel 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.
Perhaps that's why the two apprentices are arguing with each other here before they can react?
Grete forcibly 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." Another apprentice also made way. The clear female voice, with a tall figure among women, is the girl who led a few wild boars - thanks to the recent intensive training, maybe there are also
She has developed the gift of biogas and has been promoted to an official priest. Because she has mastered the microbial growth technique, Grete also arranged for her to be in the laboratory, specifically responsible for bacterial culture.
Grete 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!
Gretel felt like he was choking on his breath. The results of the bacterial microscopy, the symptoms of the 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 Class B epidemic, but it is extremely dangerous. It is easily complicated by sepsis, and death occurs 2 to 3 days after the onset of the disease. Without treatment, the mortality rate is 25%
to 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 taught them how to calculate the content of penicillin before. 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, and then add the bacteria
Sample, throw the birth spell up——
"It's different again! Sir, what you made this time is different again!"
"Show me!" Gretel stepped in front of the microscope. Under the lens, there was no longer a long bamboo-shaped chain, but large and uniform balls, arranged in a long chain 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 that I have learned about, this is the only one that exhibits the above characteristics!
No more luck.
In other words, God has given them the only luck, and they can no longer expect more.
Gretel closed his 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?"
The two apprentices leaned over to look at the record book at the same time. The one from the Necromancy School was very articulate and had already read out quickly:
"No. 39, Graston Street, Room 101, Room 115, Room 213, tap water for culture!"
"Room 218, Room 305, Room 312, 25 Cameron Street, tap water for culture!"
Sure enough, it was the water source. The drinking water supplied from the faucets of three different buildings and eight different households was also detected with pathogenic bacteria - there was only one possibility, the water source was contaminated!
Gretel became 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 for you to do!
For the other two, please do it slowly and keep the number of casts for today. A batch of important inspection materials will come over later. Please read my note and give priority to inspection!"
"yes!"
"yes!"
Grete hurriedly took the people away. 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. A set of procedures
After walking, I returned to the outside. 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 unconscious!"
"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 me--"
"The third floor is also full! Where are the patients sent?"
Grete walked quickly through the passage. Along the way, in almost every ward, there was a white light of healing power flashing. When he walked to the hall, Archmage Tolga sat among a group of low-level medical magicians, each one
With a tired face and sweat all over his body, Master Tolga took out the fruits from his space bag and threw them to them one by one.
Gretel 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 really needs to be carried out as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a wave of hospital infection before the people are cured. What a big joke!
"Did you hear that?" Master Tolga quickly shouted to the disciples. At the same time, several priests also walked down from the ward upstairs, their faces were also exhausted and their bodies were covered in sweat. Bishop Sullivan of the Ares Temple even slipped on the stairs.
With a kick, he barely grabbed the handrail and walked quickly towards Grete:
"The healing power is not enough! I have called everyone who can, but it still isn't 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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I forgot to mention it at noon. Thank you everyone for collecting another 10,000 yuan reward. I will continue to add more tomorrow...