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. 2009 Oct 15;39(1):29–38. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2009.00190.x

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©2009 American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology

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Gross visual and microscopic inspection results of a contaminated pRBC unit. (A) A regular feline pRBC unit compared with (B) the sentinel feline pRBC unit contaminated with Pseudomonas fluorescens, both at 22 days of storage. (C) Poikilocytosis and free bacterial rods in a smear of the sentinel unit of pRBCs. The arrow indicates 1 of 4 P. fluorescens organisms in the field. Modified Wright–Giemsa.