Table 1.

Unique V3 sequences

Patient	time 1	time 2	time 3
07	174	112	86
18	240	112	41
19	148	134	104
47	126	84	78

Number of unique sequences used in the analysis for each patient and each of the three sample times. Based on the data provided by Tsibris et al., a cut-off of a minimum of 4 reads per sequence was applied to limit the number of spurious sequences.