Table 1. Relative abundance of top 30 taxa at genus level across five ethnic groups.
| Relative abundance (%) in ethnic groups | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa (genus level) | AA | AC | AI | AK | CG | Overall (%) | Species identified |
| Lactobacillus | 91.8 | 26.1 | 45.0 | 34.4 | 42.4 | 47.9 | L. crispatus, L. iners, L. gasseri, L. equi, L. mucosae, L. murinus, L. salivarius |
| Gardnerella | 0.884 | 9.91 | 6.24 | 12.1 | 12.8 | 8.40 | G. vaginalis |
| Prevotella | 2.11 | 21.0 | 5.05 | 4.52 | 12.0 | 8.92 | P. denticola, P. amnii, P. bivia, P. buccalis, P. disiens, P. ihumnii |
| Sneathia | 0.00 | 5.26 | 0.001 | 9.77 | 7.81 | 4.57 | S. amnii, S. sanguinegens |
| Megasphaera | 0.001 | 3.51 | 0.307 | 2.45 | 5.25 | 2.30 | M. indica |
| Atopobium | 1.36 | 0.909 | 0.667 | 3.34 | 4.34 | 2.12 | A. deltae, A. minutum |
| Anaerococcus | 0.094 | 6.95 | 2.84 | 2.79 | 0.206 | 2.57 | A. lactolyticus, A. prevotii, A. provenciensis, A. vaginalis |
| Shuttleworthia (BVBA1) | 0.00 | 15.3 | 0.00 | 1.06 | 0.711 | 3.41 | – |
| Corynebacterium | 0.00 | 0.185 | 2.14 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 1.16 | C. aurimucosum, C. genitalium, C. jeikeium, C. kroppenstedtii, C. durum, C. Pyruviciproducens |
| Veillonella | 0.00 | 0.511 | 0.069 | 0.902 | 1.98 | 0.692 | V. montpellierensis, V. seminalis |
| Fastidiosipila | 0.00 | 0.620 | 0.705 | 1.86 | 0.758 | 0.788 | Unidenitfied |
| Bifidobacterium | 0.00 | 0.001 | 0.519 | 0.151 | 1.73 | 0.479 | B. breve, B. avesanii, B. dentium, B. longum |
| Peptoniphilus | 0.148 | 0.285 | 2.29 | 0.704 | 0.001 | 0.686 | P. lacrimalis, L. obesi, L. phoceensis |
| Dialister | 0.394 | 1.58 | 0.207 | 1.10 | 0.775 | 0.811 | D. pneumosintes |
| Porphyromonas | 0.272 | 2.08 | 0.450 | 0.856 | 0.480 | 0.827 | P. asaccharolytica |
| Gemella | 0.00 | 0.602 | 0.247 | 0.173 | 1.17 | 0.439 | G. asaccharolytica, G. haemolysans |
| Prevotella 6 | 0.001 | 1.83 | 1.06 | 0.360 | 0.342 | 0.718 | – |
| Finegoldia | 0.315 | 0.001 | 1.94 | 0.478 | 0.001 | 0.547 | F. magna |
| Mobiluncus | 0.000 | 0.001 | 1.53 | 0.835 | 0.001 | 0.474 | M. curtisii |
| Parvimonas | 0.000 | 0.088 | 0.550 | 0.471 | 0.560 | 0.334 | Unidenitfied |
| Moryella | 0.00 | 0.043 | 0.572 | 1.17 | 0.001 | 0.357 | M. indoligenes |
| Chlamydia | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.857 | 0.171 | C. trachomatis |
| Streptococcus | 0.001 | 0.001 | 2.02 | 4.98 | 0.597 | 1.52 | S. agalactiae, S. anginosus, S. salivarius |
| Escherichia | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.59 | 1.08 | 0.000 | 1.14 | Unidenitfied |
| Enterococcus | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.02 | 0.512 | 0.573 | 1.02 | Unidenitfied |
| Peptostreptococcus | 1.64 | 0.001 | 2.72 | 0.184 | 0.293 | 0.967 | Unidenitfied |
| Staphylococcus | 0.001 | 0.001 | 2.68 | 2.05 | 0.038 | 0.954 | Unidenitfied |
| Ureaplasma | 0.144 | 0.001 | 0.084 | 1.43 | 0.251 | 0.383 | U. parvum |
| Mycoplasma | 0.00 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.310 | 0.805 | 0.223 | M. hominis |
| Unassigned bacteria | 0.00 | 0.000 | 0.730 | 0.797 | 0.00 | 0.305 | – |
Note:
AA, African American; AC, Afro-Caribbean; AI, Asian Indonesian; AK, African Kenyan; CG, Caucasian German. Shuttleworthia (BVAB1) has been renamed as Candidatus Lachnocurva vaginae (Holm et al., 2020).