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. 2009 Oct 14;9:167. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-167

Table 1.

Vaginal and rectal prevalence of 63 bacterial species among 132 pregnant women

Species Only
vaginala
Only rectal Vaginal + rectal Overall
1 Acinetobacter baumannii group 0 8 0 8
2 Actinomyces meyeri 0 2 0 2
3 Actinomyces neuii 2 0 0 2
4 Actinomyces radingae 0 1 0 1
5 Actinomyces urogenitalis 0 1 0 1
6 Aerococcus christensenii 3 2 0 5
7 Aerococcus viridans 0 1 0 1
8 Agrobacterium radiobacter 0 2 0 2
9 Alloscardovia omnicolens 0 1 0 1
10 Anaerococcus tetradius 0 1 0 1
11 Anaerococcus vaginalis 0 4 0 4
12 Atopobium vaginae 2 2 0 4
13 Bacteroides uniformis 1 1 0 2
14 Bifidobacterium bifidum 2 6 1 9
15 Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum 2 5 0 7
16 Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis 0 2 0 2
17 Bifidobacterium breve 0 1 0 1
18 Corynebacterium accolens 0 1 0 1
19 Dialister sp. 5 0 0 5
20 Enterococcus faecalis 5 19 2 26
21 Enterococcus faecium 1 3 0 4
22 Enterococcus avium 0 1 0 1
23 Escherichia coli 1 7 0 8
24 Finegoldia magna 2 40 0 42
25 Fusobacterium gonidioformans 0 3 0 3
26 Gardnerella vaginalis 10 2 0 12
27 Klebsiella planticola 0 1 0 1
28 Lactobacillus casei 2 1 0 3
29 Lactobacillus fermentum 1 0 0 1
30 Lactobacillus coleohominis 2 0 0 2
31 Lactobacillus crispatus 43 4 10 57
32 Lactobacillus fermentum 2 0 0 2
33 Lactobacillus gasseri 24 4 16 44
34 Lactobacillus helveticus 1 1 0 2
35 Lactobacillus iners 14 2 0 16
36 Lactobacillus jensenii 28 2 14 44
37 Lactobacillus mucosae 0 1 0 1
38 Lactobacillus rhamnosus 3 3 0 6
39 Lactobacillus salivarius 1 1 0 2
40 Lactobacillus vaginalis 13 0 0 13
41 Lactobacillus coleohominis 1 0 0 1
42 Pediococcus acidilactici 1 0 0 1
43 Peptoniphilus indolicus 1 25 0 26
44 Peptostreptococcus anaerobius 1 4 0 5
45 Peptostreptococcus sp. 0 8 0 8
46 Prevotella bivia 4 2 0 6
47 Pseudomonas stutzeri 0 1 0 1
48 Staphylococcus aureus 0 1 0 1
49 Staphylococcus capitis 1 4 0 5
50 Staphylococcus epidermidis 3 13 0 16
51 Staphylococcus haemolyticus 2 1 0 3
52 Staphylococcus hominis 1 4 0 5
53 Staphylococcus warneri 0 2 0 2
54 Streptococcus agalactiae 1 4 3 8
55 Streptococcus anginosus 3 44 3 50
56 Streptococcus bovis 0 8 0 8
57 Streptococcus intermedius 0 1 0 1
58 Streptococcus mitis group 0 7 0 7
59 Streptococcus mutans 1 0 0 1
60 Streptococcus parasanguinis 0 1 0 1
61 Streptococcus salivarius 3 2 1 6
62 Varibaculum cambriense 0 1 0 1
63 Weissella paramesenteroides 0 1 0 1
193 270 50 513

a: Number of pregnant women carrying this species.