Research Article

Sensitive Detection of Thirteen Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Agents Using Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction

Table 3

M-PCR assay performance in 45 initial samples analyzed from women with BV diagnosis by Nugent criteria.

BV-AAs detected%

Only one BV-AA20 44.5
Megasphaera type I945.0
Mobiluncus curtisii 630.0
Gardnerella vaginalis 420.0
Mycoplasma hominis 1 5.0
2 simultaneous BV-AAs10 22.2
Ureaplasma urealyticum + Gardnerella vaginalis 220.0
Megasphaera type I + BVAB 1220.0
Mobiluncus curtisii + BVAB 1110.0
Megasphaera type I + M. hominis 110.0
Megasphaera type I + Atopobium vaginae 110.0
Mycoplasma hominis + Sneathia sanguinegens 110.0
Gardnerella vaginalis + BVAB 3110.0
Mobiluncus curtisii + BVAB 2 110.0
3 simultaneous BV-AAs613.3
Megasphaera type I + BVAB 1 + BVAB 3233.3
Gardnerella vaginalis + BVAB 2 + BVAB 3116.6
Mobiluncus curtisii + BVAB 1 + BVAB 3116.6
Megasphaera type I + BVAB 2 + BVAB 3116.6
Gardnerella vaginalis + Atopobium vaginae + BVAB 2116.6
4 simultaneous BV-AAs613.3
Megasphaera type I + Atopobium vaginae + BVAB 2 + Sneathia sanguinegens 116.6
Gardnerella vaginalis + Mobiluncus curtisii + BVAB 2 + Sneathia sanguinegens 116.6
Gardnerella vaginalis + Mobiluncus curtisii + BVAB 2 + Atopobium vaginae 116.6
Gardnerella vaginalis + Atopobium vaginae + BVAB 2 + BVAB 3116.6
Megasphaera type I + Atopobium vaginae + BVAB 2 + BVAB 3116.6
Megasphaera type I + BVAB 3 + Mobiluncus mulieris + Sneathia sanguinegens 116.6
5 simultaneous BV-AAs2 4.4
Ureaplasma urealyticum + Gardnerella vaginalis + Atopobium vaginae + BVAB 1 + BVAB 2 150.0
Mobiluncus curtisii + Megasphaera type I + BVAB 3 + Mobiluncus mulieris + Sneathia sanguinegens 150.0
6 simultaneous BV-AAs1 2.2
Gardnerella vaginalis + Mobiluncus curtisii + Megasphaera type I + Atopobium vaginae + BVAB 2 + Mobiluncus mulieris 1 100.0

M-PCR: multiplex polymerase chain reaction; BV: bacterial vaginosis; BV-AAs: bacterial vaginosis-associated agents; BVABs 1, 2, and 3, bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria 1, 2, and 3.