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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2010 Dec;37(12):732–744. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181fbbc95

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Molecular methods such as broad range 16S rRNA gene PCR with cloning and sequencing have demonstrated that the microbiology of BV is complex and different subjects may have very different vaginal bacterial communities as evidenced by these two subjects. The eight most abundant phylotypes (species level operational taxonomic units) are displayed for each subject.