.Effect of vaginal cream containing 0.5% (open circle), 1.0% 
(open triangle) and 2.0% (open diamond) of methanolic extracts of scapes of S. nitens on vaginal fungal burden of rats infected with C. albicans and 
their respective controls: infected (fi lled circle), vehicle (fi lled diamond) and MCZ (open square). Data are expressed as mean  SD of two independent 
experiments (rats per group n  6 for each treatment). * Signifi cantly different from the vehicle and infected non-treated animals ( P  0.05). * Signifi cantly 
different from the vehicle and infected non-treated animals. Histological evaluation of vaginal sections after different treatments