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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Microbes Infect. 2007 Jan 27;9(5):615–622. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.01.012

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Persistent oral and vaginal colonization is dependent on both strain of mouse and strain of C. albicans. Three strains of mice (Balb/c, DBA/2 and C57BL/6) (n = 6) were induced into a state of pseudoestrus (see Section 2). Mice were inoculated orally and vaginally as described with two strains of C. albicans, the clinical human isolate 529L and the laboratory strain SC5314. Oral swabs and vaginal washings were collected at weekly intervals and C. albicans CFU/ml in individual mice are shown at 1 and 5 weeks after inoculation. C. albicans NCPF 3153 provided similar data to SC5314 (not shown). Experiments were repeated on at least two occasions with similar results.