Figure 4.

Associations of Ct clearance and CSTs with genital inflammation. (A) Log₁₀-transformed IFNγ levels plotted by Ct clearance indicate clearers have slightly higher levels of IFNγ than non-clearers. (B, C) PCA performed over the log₁₀ transformed cytokine values show a large overlap between Ct clearers and non-clearers in cytokines (B). When colored by CST the PCA performed over the log transformed cytokine values shows a distinction between the Lactobacillus spp.-dominated CST2 and CST3 which associate more with IP-10, IL-6, and RANTES compared to the BV-like CST1 (C).