Temporal Shifts in Microbial Communities in Nonpregnant African-American Women with and without Bacterial Vaginosis

Table 2

Relationship between BV score and the diversity, richness, and stability of the vaginal microbial community.

Participant^1	BV score^2	Simpson diversity (1D)	Chao1 species richness	Library similarity (%)^3
1 (2)	0.5	0.15	7	97.0±1.9
2 (2)	0	0.03	4	100.0±0.1
3 (2)	3	0.38	14	79.1±8.6
4 (3)	1	0.03	7	100±0.1
5 (3)	1.3	0.33	15	91.0±5.0
6 (4)	7	0.75	27	43.1±4.6
7 (4)	8.3	0.85	22	38.2±6.9

¹Numbers in parentheses represent the total number of clone libraries for that participant.²Mean of BV scores given in Table 1.³Calculated by the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of Yue and Clayton. Values ± SE.