False‐colored scanning electron microscopy images of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (length: 15 micrometers) laying on the peritoneal epithelium and awaiting entrance into the bloodstream of an infected mouse. The parasite is responsible for human sleeping sickness in Western and Central Africa. Image is from the Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium (David Pé rez‐Morga, Daniel Monteyne, Gilles Vanwalleghem and Etienne Pays). For further details readers are referred to the article by Lecordier et al . on pp. 625–636 of this issue