Table 7.

Quantification of organic acids after infection assays (Mean ± SD).

	Organic acids concentration (g/L)
	Acetic acid	Lactic acid	Propionic acid	Succinic acid
Control (Both + Epitelium)	1.314 ± 0.062	0.399 ± 0.386	<LOQ	0.126 ± 0.002
Control A. vaginae	1.117 ± 0.111	0.420 ± 0.525	<LOQ	0.050 ± 0.001
Control G. vaginalis	1.043 ± 0.450	0.516 ± 0.410	<LOQ	0.051 ± 0.001
Control P. acnes	1.203 ± 0.635	0.616 ± 0.497	0.829 ± 0.869a*	0.073 ± 0.036
Control St. agalactiae	1.217 ± 0.246	5.172 ± 0.314a**	<LOQ	0.063 ± 0.019
Control BPL005	1.371 ± 0.122	4.769 ± 0.145a**	0.093 ± 0.002a*	0.045 ± 0.001
BPL005 + A. vaginae	1.325 ± 0.103	4.515 ± 0.403b**	0.139 ± 0.005b*	0.048 ± 0.001
BPL005 + G. vaginalis	1.338 ± 0.073	4.392 ± 0.223b**	0.142 ± 0.010b*	0.046 ± 0.003
BPL005 + P. acnes	1.337 ± 0.206	4.160 ± 1.189b**	0.309 ± 0.011	0.067 ± 0.024
BPL005 + St. agalactiae	1.264 ± 0.021	4.800 ± 0.002	<LOQ	0.048 ± 0.002

LOQ, Limit of quantification = 0.01 g/L (lactic acid, succinic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid) and 0.05 g/L (acetic acid). Statistics are done:

^acomparing control (broth + epithelium) vs. control of pathogen, are statistically different;

^beach pathogen control vs. its grown together with strain BPL005, are statistically different.

^*p-value < 0.05

^**p-value < 0.001.