Figure 5. Figure 4: Fungal Burden Load.

BALB/c mice were intravenously injected in the tail vein with 10⁸ cells for each of the indicated strains (S1, S2, R1, R2, R3, R4, Co, Cm). Data are expressed as the log10 colony-forming units (CFUs)/tissue of % organ weigh from kidneys and liver homogenates at day 4 after the challenge. The log10 CFUs from both kidneys were combined and averaged. Log10 counts were compared for statistical significance by Mann-Whitney test with a p = 0.0024 (significant). A p-value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Moreover, C. parapsilosis sensitive vs. C. parapsilosis resistant kidneys fungal load has a p = 0.4182 (not significant), for the liver fungal load p = 0. 5899 (not significant). C. parapsilosis sensitive vs. C. orthopsilosis kidneys fungal load have a p = 0.0667 (not significant), for the liver fungal load p > 0.9999 (not significant). C. parapsilosis sensitive vs. C. metapsilosis kidneys fungal load has a p = 0.0667 (not significant), for the liver fungal load p = 0.4667 (not significant). C. parapsilosis resistant vs. C. orthopsilosis kidneys fungal load has a p= 0.0222 (significant), for the liver p = 0.9333 (not significant). C. parapsilosis resistant vs. C. metapsilosis kidneys fungal load has a p = 0.222 (significant), for the Liver p = 0.2444 (not significant). C. orthopsilosis vs. C. metapsilosis for the kidneys fungal load is p = 0.3333 (not significant), and for the liver p > 0.9999 (not significant).