Figure 1.

Diversity metrics of the vaginal microbiota of women who experienced bacterial vaginosis recurrence and those that remained cured at 1 month postenrollment. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling plots of the overall composition of the vaginal microbiota pretreatment (A) and immediately posttreatment (B). Box plots showing the bacterial diversity (measured using the Shannon diversity index) of the vaginal microbiota of cure and recurrence cases pretreatment and immediately posttreatment (C). Box plots displaying differences in the compositional change of the vaginal microbiota following treatment (measured using Bray–Curtis distances calculated between paired pretreatment and immediate posttreatment samples) between cure and recurrence cases (D). Abbreviations: ANOSIM, analysis of similarity; NMDS, nonmetric multidimensional scaling.