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Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025

About the Cover

A Personal Journey Through the Microbial World in Quilting

Lesli MitchellComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Key for quilt squares in The Pathogen Quilt, created by Mija-tesse Ververs, MMed, MPH. Squares 1, 8, 12, and 24, DNA and RNA viruses and replication; squares 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 23, pathogens with surface proteins such as glycoproteins, hemagglutinins, or neuraminidases, including HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, Nipah virus, and mpox virus; squares 5 and 13, red blood cells; squares 10 and 22, Vibrio cholerae; squares 14 and 16, Ebola virus; squares 17 and 21, viral DNA. The remaining squares represent fantasy pathogens, designed for their visual appeal by the artist.

Figure. Key for quilt squares in The Pathogen Quilt, created by Mija-tesse Ververs, MMed, MPH. Squares 1, 8, 12, and 24, DNA and RNA viruses and replication; squares 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 23, pathogens with surface proteins such as glycoproteins, hemagglutinins, or neuraminidases, including HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, Nipah virus, and mpox virus; squares 5 and 13, red blood cells; squares 10 and 22, Vibrio cholerae; squares 14 and 16, Ebola virus; squares 17 and 21, viral DNA. The remaining squares represent fantasy pathogens, designed for their visual appeal by the artist.

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