The Human Vaginal Bacterial Biota and Bacterial Vaginosis
Figure 6
Summary data of rank
abundance plots depicting the bacterial species detected in clone libraries
from subjects without BV (A) and with BV (B) in our studies. Broad range PCR using primers 338f
and 1407r along with clone library analysis of 1327 clones from 13 subjects
without BV resulted in 16 phylotypes being detected.
Similar analysis of 2577 clones from 23 clone libraries from 17 subjects
with BV resulted in the detection of 44 different bacterial species. Vaginal bacterial species are indicated on
the x-axis and the numbers of clones are indicated on the y-axis and above every
bar. Subjects without BV have bacterial
biotas dominated by lactobacilli while subjects with BV have a diverse
bacterial biota. BVAB denotes bacterial
vaginosis associated bacterium.
