Detection of Fastidious Vaginal Bacteria in Women with HIV Infection and Bacterial Vaginosis : Table 4

]>Detection of Fastidious Vaginal Bacteria in Women with HIV Infection and Bacterial Vaginosis : Table 4

Table 4: Vaginal effects of bacteria: univariate correlation (using linear regression) between presence of bacterial species and log-transformed quantity of nucleated cells in the CVL and between concentration of bacterial species and pH of the vaginal secretions.


	Nucleated cells			pH
	(model with presence/absence bacterial species)			(model with concentration of bacterial species)
Bacterial species	Regression coefficient	95% CI	value	Regression coefficient	95% CI	value

Lactobacillus spp			.001	0.019	0.129	.74
Lactobacillus crispatus	0.136	, 0.456	.41		,	<.001
Gardnerella vaginalis	0.573	0.110, 1.035	.015	0.156	0.098, 0.214	<.001
Leptotrichia/Sneathia	0.226	, 0.535	.15	0.123	0.078, 0.169	<.001
Megasphaera spp.	0.130	, 0.456	.43	0.108	0.062, 0.154	<.001
BVAB1	0.012	, 0.400	.95	0.062	0.007, 0.118	.027
BVAB2	0.042	, 0.351	.79	0.160	0.11, 0.204	<.001
BVAB3		, 0.321	.90	0.113	0.058, 0.168	<.001