Instead, he saw a field of gram-negative rods so faint they looked like ghosts.
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The fluorescent lights of the hospital lab hummed a low B-flat, a sound Elias usually found soothing. Tonight, it felt like a warning. Instead, he saw a field of gram-negative rods
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