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Fig. 3

From: Making inroads into improving treatment of bacterial vaginosis – striving for long-term cure

Fig. 3

Daily temporal dynamics of vaginal bacterial communities in six women over a 10-week period. The relative abundance of each bacterial taxa is depicted as interpolated bar graphs. The bacterial taxa are indicated on the right of each bar graph with color codes. Daily Nugent Gram stain scores (range 0–10) and pH (range 4–7) are indicated below the graph. Red solid circles represent menstruation. Missing pH values are indicated by red box, otherwise pH is in line with a value of 4. Missing Nugent scores are also indicated by the red box, otherwise the score is in line with 0. The figure illustrates that the top four participants (a, b, c, d) carry highly stable communities dominated by L. crispatus (a), L. iners (b) and non-Lactobacillus dominated communities (c and d). Women e and f experienced unstable communities with both high Nugent scores and pH. Adapted with permission from Microbiome [78]

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