Figure 1.

Pretreatment ranges for bacterial concentration during bacterial vaginosis. Distributions of pretreatment log₁₀16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene copies/swab for each measured bacterium, ordered by increasing mean. Boxes represent the interquartile range (IQR) of the data, the whiskers extend to cover all data within 1.5 times the IQR of the first or third quartile, and solid dots represent outliers. Sample sizes at baseline are given for each species (out of 15 total episodes). Lactobacillus jensenii was removed because of small sample size (n = 1 with a baseline log₁₀ 16S rRNA count of 6.40 gene copies/swab). Abbreviations: A. vaginae, Atopobium vaginae; BVAB, BV-associated bacterium; G. vaginalis, Gardnerella vaginalis.