{"id":65721,"date":"2025-12-17T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/?p=65721"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:49:47","slug":"congratulations-introducing-parasitologys-new-front-cover-for-2026-by-dr-beatriz-cancino-faure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/congratulations-introducing-parasitologys-new-front-cover-for-2026-by-dr-beatriz-cancino-faure\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations! Introducing Parasitology&#8217;s New Front Cover for 2026 by Dr Beatriz Cancino-Faure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>Each year <em>Parasitology<\/em> hosts an open competition for authors and readers to submit either photographs or associated computer graphic imagery. In so doing, we hope to capture the essence of contemporary parasitological research across the world. This year two submissions were finally chosen by the editorial team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 winner is Dr Beatriz Cancino-Faure, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica del Maule, Chile, who submitted a photomicrograph of <strong><em>Acanthocheilonema reconditum<\/em><\/strong> as seen within a canine blood smear, stained by Giemsa. Once thought rather benign, infections with this filarial worm are now becoming of veterinary concern across parts of South America. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Picture1-2026.png\" alt=\"Acanthocheilonema reconditum as seen within a canine blood smear\" class=\"wp-image-65722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Picture1-2026.png 498w, https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Picture1-2026-420x326.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In second place was Dr Fernando Sanchez-Valdez, University of Georgia, United States for his striking colorful image of intracellular of amastigotes <strong><em>Trypanosoma cruzi<\/em><\/strong> within human Vero cells using ultrastructure expansion&nbsp;microscopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"263\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65723\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Parasitology<\/em> Editorial Team congratulates both Beatriz and Fernando and sincerely thanks all who submitted their imagery this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year Parasitology hosts an open competition for authors and readers to submit either photographs or associated computer graphic imagery. 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