TABLE 3.
Presence and Mean Relative Abundance by Circumcision and BV Status for the 10 Most Abundant Meatal Taxa and Those Identified by Stability Selection
| Circumcised | Uncircumcised | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BV Negative (Nugent 0–6; n = 92), % Present (% Mean RA) | BV Positive (Nugent 7–10; n = 74), % Present (% Mean RA) | BV Negative (Nugent 0–6; n = 63), % Present (% Mean RA) | BV Positive (Nugent 7–10; n = 78), % Present (% Mean RA) | |
| Most abundant taxa | ||||
| Corynebacterium | 98.9 (17.9) | 100 (15.8) | 93.7 (8.74) | 91.0 (9.60) |
| Anaerococcus | 95.7 (7.51) | 96.0 (8.49) | 100 (11.7) | 97.4 (8.00) |
| Streptococcus | 83.7 (8.05) | 83.8 (12.4) | 74.6 (6.29) | 69.2 (7.92) |
| L. iners | 47.8 (10.2) | 41.9 (11.7) | 50.8 (11.1) | 50.0 (10.6) |
| Staphylococcus | 95.7 (7.87) | 98.7 (4.60) | 71.4 (2.14) | 76.9 (2.87) |
| Finegoldia | 91.3 (3.09) | 93.2 (4.96) | 100 (12.7) | 96.2 (11.8) |
| S. sanguinegens | 56.5 (14.3) | 59.5 (14.1) | 55.6 (10.4) | 60.3 (8.54) |
| Peptoniphilus | 84.5 (3.66) | 93.2 (3.95) | 100 (9.03) | 93.6 (9.62) |
| Ezakiella | 75.0 (2.50) | 71.6 (2.46) | 85.7 (8.91) | 85.9 (8.25) |
| Ralstonia | 54.4 (13.9) | 68.9 (5.29) | 73.0 (3.24) | 70.5 (3.22) |
| Taxa identified by stability selection | ||||
| Dialister | 50.0 (0.63) | 66.2 (0.92) | 84.1 (1.25) | 80.8 (1.58) |
| Aerococcus | 54.4 (0.61) | 50.0 (0.82) | 52.4 (0.33) | 44.9 (0.31) |
| Fastidiosipila | 47.0 (1.10) | 55.4 (0.55) | 47.6 (0.41) | 56.4 (0.79) |
| Fusobacterium | 33.7 (1.70) | 36.5 (3.79) | 27.0 (2.02) | 21.8 (1.23) |
| Brevibacterium | 62.0 (0.27) | 71.6 (0.58) | 34.9 (0.22) | 46.2 (0.46) |
| Ureaplasma | 66.3 (3.46) | 68.9 (1.03) | 61.9 (0.92) | 50.0 (1.27) |
| Megasphaera | 10.9 (0.86) | 31.1 (0.36) | 15.9 (0.57) | 30.8 (0.38) |
*n = 307; penile microbiome measure missing for 14 observations among the 321 observations with nonoptimal vaginal microbiome.
% mean RA indicates the percent mean relative abundance of the specified taxa in the observations in which it is present; % present, the proportion of observations in which there is any amount of the specified taxa.