Fig. 2.

Alpha diversity measures of cervical microbiota. Comparison of the alpha diversity of cervical microbiota grouped by a) community state type (CST), b) bacterial vaginosis (BV) findings, c) human papillomavirus (HPV) infection status and d) high-risk (HR)-HPV infection status. In each plot, the box ranges from the first to the third quartile, with the median represented by the horizontal line. The whiskers extend to the smallest and largest non-outliers and outliers are represented by the dots.