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. 2017 Feb 24;12(2):e0171856. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171856

Fig 2. Heat map depicting vaginal bacterial communities analysed in this study.

Fig 2

Heat map of proportions of bacterial taxa identified from 184 specimens from 52 participants. Values are expressed as arcsine transformed relative abundances. Nugent score categories and sexual activity categories for each specimen are indicated. Community state type (CST) groupings shown based on previous literature [4, 6, 16], where CST I aligns with specimens dominated by Lactobacillus crispatus, CST II with specimens dominated by L. gasseri, CST III with specimens dominated by L. iners, CST IV with specimens dominated by G. vaginalis and CST V with specimens dominated by L. jensenii. CST VI represents specimens dominated by other heterogeneous non-lactobacilli (predominantly Atopobium vaginae and Prevotella spp.) and CST VII specimens dominated by Bifidobacterium breve.