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

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	𝑃 value	Regression coefficient	95% CI	𝑃 value
Lactobacillus spp	−0.600	−0.958, −0.242	.001	0.019	−0.092, 0.129	.74
Lactobacillus crispatus	0.136	−0.185, 0.456	.41	−0.127	−0.18, −0.073	<.001
Gardnerella vaginalis	0.573	0.110, 1.035	.015	0.156	0.098, 0.214	<.001
Leptotrichia/Sneathia	0.226	−0.083, 0.535	.15	0.123	0.078, 0.169	<.001
Megasphaera spp.	0.130	−0.196, 0.456	.43	0.108	0.062, 0.154	<.001
BVAB1	0.012	−0.376, 0.400	.95	0.062	0.007, 0.118	.027
BVAB2	0.042	−0.267, 0.351	.79	0.160	0.11, 0.204	<.001
BVAB3	−0.021	−0.364, 0.321	.90	0.113	0.058, 0.168	<.001