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Cover image: Mouse lung section infected with Yersinia pestis during primary pneumonic plague. Bacteria are indicated in red, and host lung tissue and cells are stained yellow. Y. pestis bacilli fill the alveoli and surround recruited neutrophils, causing purulent, exudative, and fatal bronchopneumonia. See the article by Lathem et al. on pages 17786–17791. Image courtesy of Wyndham W. Lathem.

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