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(a) Organ impression smear of spleen stained with Gram’s stain, showing Gram-negative coccobacilli inside macrophages; (b) blood impression smear stained with Liu’s stain (right) showing signet ring formation, with the bacteria displacing the nucleus of a macrophage to the periphery.