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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Menopause. 2014 May;21(5):450–458. doi: 10.1097/GME.0b013e3182a4690b

Figure 1. Heatmap of relative percent abundance of bacterial taxa found in the vaginal bacterial communities of 87 women in pre-, peri- and post-menopause.

Figure 1

Vaginal microbiota clustered into six community state types; CST-I, II, III and V were dominated by Lactobacillus crispatus, L. gasseri, L. iners, or L. jensenii, respectively. Two CSTs lacked significant numbers of lactobacilli (CST-IV-A and IV-B). This heatmap lists the top 25 most abundant bacteria; however data is available on more than 200 bacteria found in the female genital tract of these participants. CSTs are defined using Jensen-Shannon divergence between all pairs of community states and Ward linkage hierarchical clustering as described by Gajer et al.32. Menopause stage is indicated at the top of the heatmap.