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Cover photograph (Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.): Expression of the flhDC gene (class I flagella) by uropathogenic Escherichia coli within superficial umbrella cells during acute cystitis as seen by laser scanning confocal fluorescent microscopy. flhDC gene expression was monitored by using a chromosomal flhDC promoter-green fluorescent protein fusion in the prototypic cystitis strain, UT189, at 16 h postinfection in C3H/HeN female mice. Nucleic acid was counterstained red with TO-PRO-3 iodide (Molecular Probes). (See related article on p. 7657.)