It's not that hard to open a hospital in another world, right?

Chapter 316 A Bacteria, Three Forms (Red Comet Maswand Reward 3)

Hearing the quarrel among the apprentices in the testing room, Gretel first... let out a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, the pathogen is a bacterium -- not a virus.If it is a virus, it will be over. The diameter of the virus is smaller than the wavelength of visible light, so the light wave of visible light will "bypass" the virus, and it cannot be seen under an optical microscope.To identify a virus, you need an electron microscope...

However, if you want to make an electron microscope, such as atoms, electrons, and wave-particle duality, a lot of pre-technology needs to be pointed out, and it is impossible to do it now!

Thanks to the bacteria, thankfully the bacteria.After Gretel breathed a sigh of relief, he closed the gate behind him and swept into the inspection room:
"What are you arguing about?"

He was wrapped in a protective suit, and he couldn't tell what his expression was, but it was just this question, and the four people in the testing room stopped talking at the same time.Gretel even saw two people shrinking their necks, as if they were silent - am I so scary?

If it wasn't for the tight time, he really wanted to vomit this trough.However, there were hundreds of patients waiting outside, and Gretel could only move forward to look at the petri dishes in front of everyone:
"What did you do?"

Alas, this protective suit is pitch-black, and the face is completely covered, so it is impossible to tell who is who.Next time they should write their names on the protective clothing, or put a name tag on it——Grete walked to the microscope closest to him, and the apprentice next to him immediately stepped aside and complained:

"Look, sir, I made them one by one, and he used the things I extracted to make them in long strips! I said he made a mistake, but he still didn't believe it!"

What 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.Gretel heard it this time. The person in charge of making the smear was a necromancer apprentice. He was careful and steady, and he was one of the first eight people who passed the bacterial culture assessment. He was sent to work in the laboratory this time:

"I did smears of feces from patients and environmental samples! In both smears, I saw this kind of bacteria, and the amount was very large! I asked him to take it for culture, and the things he made were different from mine. , must have made a variety of bacteria!"

"...Let me take a look." Gretel was noncommittal, leaning over the microscope to look.Reach out and slowly turn the knob, and the image under the lens will be enlarged little by little.The image of the bacteria appeared in the camera. Grete only took one look, and his heart was pounding. He couldn't help but bend down and get closer to the camera:
The bacteria in the lens are much bigger than he expected!
Gretel closed his eyes slightly, flipped through "Medical Microbiology" in his mind, and kept searching:

Escherichia coli, the size is (0.4~0.7)*(1~3) microns;
Shigella, (0.5~0.7)*(2~3) microns;
Salmonella causing typhoid and paratyphoid, (0.6~1.0)*(2~4) microns;
Vibrio cholerae, (0.5~0.8)*(1.5~3) microns;
Bacillus anthracis, (1~3)*(5~10) microns! ! !
Whether it is length or 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 bacillus among the pathogenic bacteria. This point was emphasized by the teacher in the class in the previous life!
Gretel took a deep breath.If you look closely, the smears under the microscope are short rods with some ovals in between.Even after looking at several smears, Grete could find this particularly large bacterium, which was exactly the same as the Bacillus anthracis he had extracted before.

Because the product was too dangerous, Gretel did not take out this germ for the apprentices to cultivate, but only gave a general lecture on its characteristics and showed them the atlas—anyway, he also studied "Medical Microbiology" back then. Not every kind of bacteria has been seen, and a large part of them are memorized by rote.

Maybe that's the case, the two apprentices have not reacted yet, and they are arguing with each other here?

Gretel forcibly suppressed his beating heart.He nodded to the necromancer apprentice, then turned to the other side:
"I'll take a look at what you made too."

"Sir, here." Another apprentice also stepped aside.With a crisp female voice and a tall figure among women, it was the girl who brought a few wild boars here—thanks to the recent high-intensity training, and perhaps the gift of research and development of biogas, she has advanced to an official priest.Because of her mastery of microbe birthing, Gretel also arranged for her to enter the laboratory, where she was in charge of bacterial culture.

Gretel carefully observed the microscope in front of her. Before the knob was screwed in place, her fingers stopped:
Under the microscope, a large bunch of bacteria are connected end to end, forming long chains, shaped like bamboo joints.

When fresh specimens are directly smeared, they are often single or in short chains; after culture, they form long chains arranged like bamboo joints... In "Medical Microbiology", lines of words jumped into my mind, like thunderbolts.

[Bamboo-shaped] These three words are specially bolded in the textbook, and even attached with a picture!
Gretel felt like he was choking for breath.The results of the bacterial microscope examination, the symptoms of the patients outside, and the answer obtained by combining the two...

Intestinal anthrax.

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

Is this really the disease?

——Wait a minute, there is still verification, and one last verification!
Gretel turns to the apprentices in the lab::

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

A necromancer, a magician of the School of Change, and two priests of the God of Nature responded in unison, and began to deploy their hands and feet deftly.

The calculation method of penicillin content, Grete taught them before, every 50 milliliters of broth, just the penicillin that can inhibit the reproduction of Staphylococcus aureus is one unit.Add an appropriate amount of penicillin to the agar to make a plate culture medium, add bacteria samples, and throw spells on it——

"It's different again! Sir, it's different this time!"

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

Penicillin bead test, positive!
Direct smears are often single or in short chains, and after culture, they form long chains arranged in bamboo-like arrangement, which are in the form of beads on the medium containing a small amount of penicillin-the same bacteria, three different forms, he In "Medical Microbiology Of the pathogenic bacteria I have learned in ", this is the only one that exhibits the above characteristics!
No more luck.

In other words, God has bestowed their 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 you do, the environmental inspection materials, come from?"

Both apprentices leaned over the record book at the same time.The eloquent one from the Necromancer School has already read it quickly:
"39 Gladstone Street, Room 101, Room 115, Room 213, tap water for cultivation!"

"Room 25, 218 Cameron Street, Room 305, Room 312, tap water supply cultivation!"

"Room 37, Room 11, Basement 105, Alama Street, faucet..."

It really is a source of water.Three different buildings, eight different residents, the drinking water supplied from the taps, pathogenic bacteria were detected at the same time - there is only one possibility, the water source is polluted!

Gretel became more and more determined.He pointed to the two apprentices in the testing room, the one from the Transformation School, and the tall girl from the God of Nature Cult:

"None of you did anything wrong. This kind of bacteria will indeed appear in different forms under different conditions. Go back and review my handouts again. ——You two, immediately put down your work and come out with me! There are more important things Things for you to do!

For the other two, take your time and keep the number of times you cast spells today. A batch of important inspection materials will come later. Read my note and give priority to inspections! "

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Gretel hurriedly led the people away.However, no matter how anxious he was, he had to abide by the laboratory rules: shower with disinfectant, take off protective clothing, take a second shower, put on the same clothes as he came in, wear a hat, mask, and gloves.After completing a set of procedures and returning to the outside room, the hospital is already so busy that it is about to catch fire:

"Patient No. 1 on the first floor is dying! Pastor! Pastor!"

"Patient No. 1 on the first floor is unconscious!"

"Two more people escaped from the quarantine area! Are you going to catch them?"

"Get me out! Get me out!—I'll be fired for not going to the union!"

"Mother, mother—help—"

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

Gretel walked briskly down the aisle.Along the way, in almost every ward, there are white lights of healing techniques flashing.Walking to the hall, Mage Tolga sat among a group of low-level medical magicians, all of them looked tired and sweaty.Master Tolga took out fruits from the interspatial bag and was throwing 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, and if possible, burn them! Your clothes and hands are contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, eat them without cleaning. Things will also get the plague!"

hell!The popularization of science about infectious diseases and aseptic operation really needs to be spread out as soon as possible, otherwise people will be cured, and there will be a wave of hospital feeling first, which is a big joke!
"Did you hear that!" Master Tolga quickly stopped his disciples.At the same time, several pastors also came down from the upstairs ward, with tired faces and sweat all over their bodies.Bishop Sullivan of the Temple of the God of War even slipped his foot on the stairs, grabbed the handrail, and walked quickly towards Gretel:

"The healing power is not enough! Everyone who can be called has been called, but it seems that it is still not enough! ——Little Gretel, what else can you do?"

"...Give me some time." Gretel panted wearily: "Your Excellency, Archmage, Your Excellency, please take them with you, try to save spells, as long as you keep the patient alive. Give me time! Fight for me." time!"

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3000 words!
Today is 6000 words again!
The three rewards of Red Comet Marth are over!

I forgot to mention it at noon, thank you all for collecting another [-] rewards, and I will continue to add more tomorrow...

　My Caoyulu fell once, dropped a lot of soil and poured it back. Today I found that the bottom leaf is shriveled... Should I water it today or wait a few days for the soil I bought to arrive, and move the pot to water it together. ?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)