Table 1: Transepithelial electrical resistance (TER) in Ohm/cm2 of the HeLa cell monolayers of controls and after incubation with yeast and bacterial strains.

Microbial Species Number of Strains Clinical Origin TER Ohm/cm2 (SD)1
Blood Vagina
Candida albicans 12 1 11 384 (14)
Candida glabrata 13 1 12 384 (15)
Candida tropicalis 14 - 14 382 (11)
Candida parapsilosis 14 1 13 391 (20)
Candida krusei 14 1 13 377 (16)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 15 - 15 389 (14)
Lactobacillus 20 - 20 543 (36)
Escherichia coli 18 - 18 487 (10)
Cell line (controls) 81 81 497 (28)

1SD: standard deviation