Table 2.
Bacterial genera in the vagina and vestibule of women without vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS).
| Taxona | Vagina |
Vestibule |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % positive | % dominant | % positive | % dominant | |
| Lactobacillus | 86.7 | 66.7 | 100.0 | 80.0 |
| Gardnerella | 46.7 | 33.3 | 60.0 | 20.0 |
| Atopobium | 33.3 | 0.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 |
| Prevotella | 26.7 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 0.0 |
| Sneathia | 20.0 | 0.0 | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| Megasphaera | 20.0 | 0.0 | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| Veillonella | 20.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Streptococcus | 13.3 | 0.0 | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| Coriobacter | 13.3 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Dialister | 13.3 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| TM7 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| E. coli/Shigella | 6.7 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Anaerococcus | 6.7 | 0.0 | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| Peptoniphilus | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Corynebacterium | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Propionimicrobium | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Segniliparus | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Alloscardovia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Anaerospaera | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Campylobacter | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Clostridiaceae | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
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Bacterial communities of the vagina and vestibule were characterized by gene amplification and classification of the 16S rRNA amplicon sequences obtained. “Dominant” was defined as any bacterial taxon that constituted > 25% of a community.