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If you check the sensor_msgs/PointCloud type you can see that it contains an array of points of type geometry_msgs/Point32 that have member variables x, y and z. So you can write a node that listens to your markers topic, extract the points coordinates, puts them into the PointCloud message and republish that message.

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