Table 1.

Bacterial species used in study experiments.

Bacterial species	Source	Strain	Origin
L. crispatus	Jacques Ravel, University of Maryland	Unknown	Clinical isolate from a 38-year-old Caucasian female
L. iners	ATCC 55195	AB107	Patient with bacterial vaginosis
G. vaginalis	ATCC 14018	JCM11026	Isolated from the vaginal space of women with non-specific vaginitis in 1959, single species sequenced in 2015