Table 2.

Some differences between VVC caused by C. albicans and experimental vaginal infection by this fungus in mice (MVC).

Disease	Vaginal pH	Dominant form of growth	Gene expression (log)a
			SAP2	ECE1
VVC	4.5–5.0	Pseudohyphaeb	1.17 ± 0.11	0.97 ± 0.16
MVC	6.8–7.2	True hyphaec	0.96 ± 0.22	2.36 ± 0.29d

^aMean ± SEM (log relative expression) of 40 VVC cases and mean ± SEM log fold expression of 6 mice (three determinations each) challenged with CA-105 (3 mice) and CA-67 (3 mice);

^bYeast cells are present;

^cYeast cells are absent;

^dp < 0.05, Student’s t test, two tailed, comparing SAP2 with ECE1 in MVC.