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May-Grunwald Giemsa stained blood smear of the mother in the acute phase.. Presence of numerous spherocytes (red arrows) and some mushroom cells (blue arrows). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).
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On the blood smears, up to 40 % of spherocytes were observed with many mushroom red cells (Fig. 1), which are found in HS due to protein band 3 deficiency.