Table 3.
Lactobacillus Species Abundance as a Function of Race/Ethnicity.a
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | African American (13 swabs) | Asian (23 swabs) | Caucasian (66 swabs) | Hispanic (19 swabs) | Other (17 swabs) |
| L acidophilus | 21.7 | 1.5 | |||
| L coleohominis | 4.3 | 1.5 | |||
| L crispatus | 30.8 | 26.1 | 41.5 | 15.8 | 41.2 |
| L delbrueckii | 4.3 | 5.9 | |||
| L fermentum | 1.5 | ||||
| L fornicalis | 6.2 | 5.3 | |||
| L gallinarum | 4.6 | ||||
| L gasseri | 7.7 | 17.4 | 41.5 | 10.5 | 17.6 |
| L helveticus | 3.1 | ||||
| L iners | 76.9 | 21.7 | 23.1 | 68.4 | 64.7 |
| L jensenii | 7.7 | 8.7 | 27.7 | 31.6 | 35.3 |
| L johnsonii | 5.3 | ||||
| L kefiranofaciens | 1.5 | 5.9 | |||
| L kitasatonis | 1.5 | ||||
| L reuteri | 5.9 | ||||
| L rhamnosus | 4.3 | ||||
| L sp | 1.5 | 10.5 | 5.9 | ||
| L ultunensis | 7.7 | ||||
| L vaginalis | 17.4 | 12.3 | 5.3 | 10.5 | |
| Novel | 8.7 | 4.6 | |||
| Unculturedb | 6 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 4 |
| Zero | 8 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Number of Participants | 8 | 16 | 40 | 13 | 11 |
Abbreviations: RDP, Ribosomal Database Project; Zero, no Lactobacillus.
a Percentage of swabs that contain, at least, 1% of the sequence reads supporting the named Lactobacillus species.
b Uncultured designated as “uncultured” in the Ribosomal Database Project. Novel matches nothing in the RDP at 97% or greater. However, the nearest named bacterium is Lactobacillus.