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Microbial Cell, Volume 12, 2025; cover features blastomycosis
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is one of the causal agents of South American blastomycosis (paracoccidioidomycosis), a fungal infection that can affect different tissues. The cover image presents a slant culture test tube containing Sabouraud dextrose agar growth medium, which was inoculated with Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and then incubated an unidentified amount of time, at a temperature of 37°C (image by William Kaplan at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA; image modified by MIC). The cover is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.