TABLE 5.

Composition of vaginal microbiota in UTI-prone women as determined by Nugent scoring and PCR-DGGE^a

UTI-prone subject no.	Nugent score	Lactobacillus-specific probe result (no. of positive samples)			Eubacterium-specific probe result
		L. iners	L. mucosae	L. crispatus	Lactobacillus sp.	Staphylococcus	Clostridium	Fusobacterium	Streptococcus
1	1		+	+			+
3	1	+ (2)
18	1				+
29	1			+
2	2	+ (2)						+
24	3				+
27	3	+
33	3				+
26	4	+
6	5				+
32	5				Weak
34	6				Weak
11	7
20	7					+	+		+
30	7						+
28	8							+
5	9						+	+
39	9						+

^aVaginal swabs from four UTI-prone subjects were quantitatively inadequate for microbiological analyses.