FIG. 2.

Course of P. marneffei infection in BALB/c mice. Mice were injected i.v. with 3 × 10⁵ conidia. At the indicated time points, spleens and livers were excised, weighed, and processed for CFU evaluation. (A) Spleen and liver weights in control and P. marneffei-infected (Pm) mice. (B) Number of CFU recovered on YMA after 72 h from the organs of P. marneffei-infected mice. Data represent the means and standard deviations of three different experiments with four or five mice for each time point. Asterisks indicate a P value of <0.01 for comparisons between control mice and P. marneffei-infected mice.