Figure 2.
The relative abundance of 11 (of the top 25) bacterial genera measured in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG)-infected and/or Chlamydia trachomatis (CT)-infected cervicovaginal lavage specimens that had values significantly different from specimens with neither organism (neg), calculated by t test. Normalized read values of operational taxonomic units (OTUs), quantitated against the SILVA 16s database (https://www.arb-silva.de/) [20] that clustered at 97% OTUs were measured in specimens infected with both N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis (NGCT), C. trachomatis, or N. gonorrhoeae and compared with values in specimens with neither organism (neg). *P < .05, **P < .01, and ***P < .001 denote abundance values that are significantly greater than neither organism (neg). Asterisks denote values significantly greater or less than neg.
