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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2022 Jun 21;49(9):649–656. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001662

TABLE 2.

Daily probabilities of incidence and clearance of molecular-BV (CST-IV) by community class in the HMP-UMB study in Birmingham, AL (N=100).

LC/LG* LI* DA/DB/DC*
Number of transitions to molecular-BV (incidence) 65 85 142
Number of non-transitions to molecular-BV (non-incidence) 1175 722 317 
Number of transitions from molecular-BV (clearance) 65 90 140
Number of non-transitions to molecular-BV (non-clearance) 93 122 1662
Daily probability of incident molecular-BV 0.040 0.032–0.050 0.082 0.067–0.103 0.257 0.222–0.296
Daily probability of clearing molecular-BV 0.347 0.281–0.426 0.357 0.301–0.424 0.068 0.058–0.080
Number of consecutive days in molecular-BV 2.3 1.8–2.9 2.1 1.7–2.7 12.2 10.2–14.4
Number of consecutive days out of molecular-BV 19.6 14.9–25.3 9.2 7.3–11.8 3.2 2.7–3.8
*

Participants were grouped into community class according to their main CST over the course of the study, determined through hierarchical clustering on CSTs. LC: mostly CST I; LG: mostly CST II; LI: mostly CST III; DA: mostly CST IV-A; DB: mostly CST IV-B, DC: mostly CST IV-C.