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You are mixing two things.

You have a PointCloud and declared the publisher for a sensor_msgs::PointCloud2.

The best way is to use a publisher from pcl_ros (3.1) to directly publish a PointCloud as a sensor_msgs::PointCloud2. Alternatively you would have to convert that manually. The pcl_ros publisher will do this for you.

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