The mesenchymal marker vimentin/VIM was repressed by infection (FC, −2.22), whereas common markers of EMT (e.g., CDH1/2, SNAI1/2, and ZEB1/2) were not differentially expressed (Fig. 2B), suggesting that infection does not induce EMT in endocervical epithelial cells at 24 hpi. Here, CDH1 is linked to infection.