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Illustration of the three-stage separation device by which bacteria were separated from RBCs in whole mouse blood (above left). The bacteria and plasma are skimmed from the cell-free layer near the wall (above right), and the core of red cells is returned to the mouse. Taken from Ref. 79, with permission from Royal Society of Chemistry.
