TABLE 2.

Average relative abundance of the five community state types and the entire study group

Bacterium	Community state type
	I (N = 263a )	II (N = 16)	III (N = 206)	IV (N = 119)	V (N = 25)	All (N = 629)
L. crispatus	0.964	0.002	0.020	0.016	0.008	0.414
L. gasseri	0.001	0.856	0.003	0.031	0.000	0.023
L. iners	0.015	0.001	0.871	0.075	0.199	0.296
G. vaginalis	0.005	0.037	0.026	0.575	0.028	0.143
L. jensenii	0.008	0.000	0.045	0.011	0.751	0.055
A. vaginaeb	0.001	0.001	0.004	0.049	0.000	0.012
Megasphaera	0.000	0.000	0.008	0.034	0.000	0.005
A. christensensiic	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.007	0.000	0.003
Prevotella	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.008	0.000	0.001
Otherd	0.007	0.104	0.021	0.194	0.012	0.049

^aN is the number of individuals in each group.

^bAtopobium vaginae.

^cAerococcus christensensii.

^dThe sum of all other taxa in the communities of each CST.