Table S4 The abundance of vaginal bacteria relative to total Bacteria gene copy number by
species-specific qPCR for clinical cured participants in the 5-day follow-up after treatment a
Group
Species-Specific qPCR
a
BV-M (n=22)
BV-L (n=25)
p valueb
Mean
Std. Deviation
Mean
Std. Deviation
Lactobacillus genus
76.98%
16.18%
58.74%
26.59%
0.1830
L. crispatusc
3.45%
10.90%
11.86%
24.31%
0.0000
L. inersc
60.75%
35.14%
44.89%
29.19%
0.0000
L. jenseniic
2.00%
2.86%
1.74%
3.56%
0.6157
G. vaginalis
0.00%
0.00%
2.96%
4.14%
0.0356
A. vaginae
0.00%
0.01%
0.00%
0.00%
0.1371
Eggerthella
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.2863
Megasphaera type 1
0.00%
0.00%
0.37%
1.72%
0.0300
Leptotrichia/Sneathia
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.1950
Prevotella
0.051%
0.13%
0.04%
0.16%
0.7325
The copy numbers of total bacteria were 2.77×108±2.58×108 copies/l in BV-M group and
7.40×109±8.18×109 copies/l in BV-L group respectively (p < 0.05).
b
Comparisons between women with BV and women without BV were calculated with
independent-samples T-tests (SPSS Data Analysis Program version 16.0, SPSS Inc, Chicago,
IL) and were considered statistically significant if p < 0.05.
c
The relative abundance of L. crispatus, L. iners and L. jensenii was compared to the copy
number of Lactobacillus genus.
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