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. 2020 Jun 15;12(6):1779. doi: 10.3390/nu12061779

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Maternal microbiota composition is influenced by the delivery mode. (A) Multivariate analysis of the effect of the studied perinatal factors on the maternal microbiota composition at delivery based on Bray-Curtis. Membrane rupture. antibiotic at delivery, and episiotomy were only studied in mothers who had vaginal delivery. (B) Boxplot of the main genera that marked the difference of the maternal microbiota composition between delivery modes. Data was transformed by log10 of the relative abundance of each genus for plotting. Whiskers represent the 5–95 percentile interval. (C) The core group of the maternal microbiota composition at the genus level performed by the Venn diagram. (D,E) Differences in the diversity (D) and richness (E) of maternal microbiota based on the Shannon index according to the delivery mode. The line represents the median of each group. CS (Elective C-section). ECS (Emergency C-section). VAG (Vaginal delivery). * p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01. *** p < 0.001.