Age-Stratified Analysis of Vaginal Microbiota Dysbiosis and the Relationship with HPV Viral Load in HPV-Positive Women

Table 2

The proportions of CSTs in different stage of histopathologically confirmed cervical lesions ( (%)).

	Normal	LSIL/CIN1	HSIL/CIN2	HSIL/CIN3	SCC/AIS	value
CST I, CST II, CST V	8 (8.6)	9 (9.7)	36 (38.7)	36 (38.7)	4 (4.3)	0.238
CST III	14 (11.7)	16 (13.3)	28 (23.3)	48 (40.0)	14 (11.7)
CST IV	12 (12.8)	13 (13.8)	22 (23.4)	38 (40.4)	9 (9.6)
CST I, CST II, CST V	1 (11.1)	1 (11.1)	3 (33.3)	4 (44.4)	0 (0.0)	0.263
CST III	2 (11.1)	4 (22.2)	3 (16.7)	4 (22.2)	5 (27.8)
CST IV	11 (20.4)	4 (7.4)	13 (24.1)	21 (38.9)	5 (9.3)

CST: community state types; LSIL: low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; HSIL: high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; CIN: cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; SCC: squamous cell carcinoma; AIS: adenocarcinoma in situ.